"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."

-- Cassandra Wilson

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“Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.”
“A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.”

Source : "Actor-director Michael Rapaport". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 7, 2011.
“Sometimes I feel like a tree on a hill, at the place where all the wind blows and the hail hits the tree the hardest. All the people I love are down the side aways, sheltered under a great rock, and I am out of the fold, standing alone in the sun and the snow. I feel like I am not part of the rest somehow, although they welcome me and are kind. I see my family as they sit together and it is like they have a certain way between them that is beyond me. I wonder if other folks ever feel included yet alone.”
“There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.”
“When you become consumed by God's call on your life, everything will take on new meaning and significance. You will begin to see every facet of your life - including your pain - as a means through which God can work to bring others to Himself.”
“What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.”
“Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth.”
“I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.”

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