"What makes life dreary is the want of a motive."

-- George Eliot

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“Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams. And one of the big four - brownie, or brookie, cutthroat or rainbow - is the cause of it all”
“There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.”
“I'd rather play a maid than be one.”

Source : "Oscar's First Black Winner Accepted Her Honor in a Segregated 'No Blacks' Hotel in L.A." by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 19, 2015.
“The important things are to train hard, and not give upÂ hope.”
“Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.”
“When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nationâ€™s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).”
“There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.”
“But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it.”

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