"My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education."

-- Gordon Bell

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“The white people's thought is full of ignorance. They constantly devastate the land they live on and transform the waters they drink into quagmires! There is only one sky and we must take care of it, for if it becomes sick, everything will come to an end.”

Source : "'People in the west live squeezed together, frenzied as wasps in the nest'". Interview with John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2014.
“For me, surviving Compton is surviving the men, because Suge and Dre are from Compton. So in my world, in my mind, I survived their mentality.”
“There are no wrong notes.”
“I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] never was called because she probably didn't know an awful lot. The whole burden of the criticism of her on the subject of Communism is naivetÃ©, not participation. And again, being a public figure and our representative at the UN, there was nothing Communist about her, certainly.”
“I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.”
“Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.”
“If you look at literacy tests in the South, for example, they were absurdly difficult and didn't measure literacy. They were simply measuring whether or not you were black. So at every moment when we've said, hey, we don't want certain people to vote because they are not educated enough, it is often simply become a way of excluding black and brown people.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“the mighty main sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.”

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