"Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Issa Rae

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“City lights shine bright on my complexion, Self-reflection...red hairs flashing at the intersection. Life is a green light, one star, no script, Supporting actors...fresh peaches, no pit.”
“Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.”
“Everyone is an expert on T.V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T.V. set.”

Source : "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 9, (p. 250), 1969.
“I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.”

Source : "Becky Sharp is like me - a survivor" by Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2004.
“I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.”
“Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.”
“To you I belong.My heart beats only for you.No other will tempt me,from this day and beyond.To you I belong.”
“Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.”

Source : George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.43

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