"Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted."

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Source : "Lena Horne obituary" by John Fordham, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2010.

Lena Horne

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“A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.”
“It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.”
“If I could forgive, it meant I was a strong good person who could take responsibility for the path I had chosen for myself, and all the consequences that accompanied that choice. And it gave me the simple but powerful satisfaction of extending a kindness to another person in a tough spot.”

Source : Piper Kerman (2010). “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison”, p.280, Spiegel & Grau
“It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.”
“Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.”
“Any time someone tries to tell you that metadata is 'meaningless, don't worry, it's just who you call, it's just phone records, it's not a big deal' - realize we kill people based on metadata. So they must be pretty darn certain that they think they know something based on metadata.”
“But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped.”

Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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