"I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more."

-- Alice Childress

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“To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press; but mean-time the leaders have changed themselves into parvenus who have to secure their position vis-a-vis the masses.”
“It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.”
“It's a secret language, known to all different people, in different ways, that enables them to read a subliminal message without realising they're reading it. It affects people on many levels, and even people who think they're not into fashion, or reject fashion are then being informed just in the case of rejecting it. The fact that they had to react against it was a conscious decision.”

Source : "Remembering Louise Wilson OBE". AnOther Interview, origin.anothermag.com. May 17, 2014.
“If someone says you are not capable or can't have something, keep pushing because you can. And it's not because you're special, but it's because everyone possesses the ability to be awesome. The reason people say, 'No, you can't,' 'God doesn't want you to,' or they make laws is because they know that you have that in you. And they are scared to lose their superior standing.”
“The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.”
“I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.”
“Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and enjoyment, for the good player gets worried over the slightest mistake, whereas the poor player makes too many mistakes to worry about them.”
“You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.”

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