"Love, peace and soul."

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Source : "Remembering 'Soul Train' Creator Don Cornelius". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. February 1, 2012.

Don Cornelius

“There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write about war and politics and public life, while women confine themselves to family and food and personal life.”

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“Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.”
“I grew up dancing, and for a while in college, I was a gym rat. I finally realized... I'm going to create a little more balance in my life and make exercise something that I enjoy doing. So I went back to dance when I started doing more musical theatre, and I've just found that it's the best thing that works for my body.”
“Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.”
“The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes, disappointment laughs at the curious fabric, formed by so many efforts, and gay with so many brilliant colors, and, while the artists imagine the work arrived at the moment of completion, brushes away the beautiful web, and leaves nothing behind.”
“I have loved him too much not to hate”
“So Iâ€™m thinking this is the part of my movie where things appear as if nothing is going to work out. I have to remind myself that all movie characters go through this sort of dark period before they find their happy ending.”
“It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.”

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