"We're looking at a story we want to call "Am I Black enough for you?" That's that whole question of who determines what "Black enough" is. Is it color? And if it's color, then are you telling me that Clarence Thomas is Blacker than Louis Farrakhan? If it's not color then what's the line that determines whether you are?"

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Source : Source: www.ebony.com

Ed Gordon

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“Take time today to pause every now and then, take a deep breath of that moment, and know that God loves you. He will whisper "I love you" in a 1000 different ways.”
“Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.”

Source : Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”
“Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.”
“I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.”
“If only Ed Fleming had a mother who gave such sound advice. The manager of Wazoo's, a downtown Denver restaurant, Fleming is a CSU alum who has been darned giddy about the Rams' recent success. So giddy that he donned a necklace made of Pez candies, a red blazer - and nothing else. A few people gaped (some actually set aside their beers), but most ignored Fleming as he strutted like a red-blazered rooster, demanding that all hail the Mighty Naked Beer King.”

Source : "Going Gonzo In Ft. Collins". The Rocky Mountain News, October 23, 1994.
“Most of us don't want to be outsiders.”
“How can you glorify God in your body, when it doesn't function right?....What makes you think the Holy Ghost wants to live inside of a body where He can't see out through the windows, and He can't hear out the ears?”
“I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.”

Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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