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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you. Zora Neale Hurston
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I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. Malcolm X
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We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and out, and that's why we set it there. Norman Lear
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Now goverments are a different thing. Presidents who do not want me. As I said, an African-American discriminates against an indigenous Bolivian. Well, they have their reasons, but sooner or later we will all be judged. Evo Morales
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Imagine what a harmonious world it... Quincy Jones
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That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, we’ve progressed as a society, then don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself. Kobe Bryant
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I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American
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If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed. Karl Rove
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Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become inauthentic if we did not have disagreements with this president. John Conyers
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I know this, and the knowledge eats me like an inward animal: there is nothing worse for a woman than to be deprived of her womanliness. Jean Stafford
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara de Angelis
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art. Jack Bowman
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Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do. Roger Angell
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The rest were just pieces I liked, pieces that seemed fresh to me when I went back to them, sometimes for the first time in a long time.
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One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider. Larry McMurtry
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King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur. Lloyd Alexander
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You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Mitch Albom
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.