"It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death."

-- Elijah Cummings

#Journey Quotes #Rights Quotes #Black Quotes

“You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.”
“Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the dinner Nana throws for her overflowing guests in Zola's Nana, the walk through Les Halles for breakfast in Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, and nearly every meal in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt.”
“I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually.”
“I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily”
“The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.”
“A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It's an opportunity to look objectively at a group of people, to assess them, to react to them, and to measure oneself against them, to ask 'Am I like that?'”
“Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.”
“It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that.”

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