"In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors."

-- Fannie Barrier Williams

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“The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.”
“Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.”
“Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.”

Source : "Braggarts Take Over The Web". www.businessinsider.com. October 16, 2009.
“Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've never been a fan of euphemism.”
“A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied. But now she's laid; what though she be? Yet there are more delays, for where is he? He comes and passeth through sphere after sphere; First her sheets, then her arms, then anywhere. Let not this day, then, but this night be thine; Thy day was but the eve to this, O Valentine.”
“Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.”
“Teach that ***** some manners.”

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