"To take on the question of race in America and believe that you could transform this country so that it would actually be a place that was welcoming for everyone that was here, including dealing with the history of slavery and the kind of oppression this country is based on, that's an amazing moment to begin to find your own political ideals."

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Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Amber Hollibaugh

#Country Quotes #Believe Quotes #Race Quotes

“An important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive.”
“I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.”

Source : "Rights groups: prominent Chinese activist and wife beaten" by Jo Ling Kent and Jaime Florcruz, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2011.
“Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.”
“Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.”
“The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.”
“Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.”
“Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.”
“Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.”

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