"Food is an important lens onto the civil rights movement. One of the central issues of the movement was the right to eat in places that served the public. This battle led to the lunch counter sit-ins, which became embattled, contested places."

-- Marcie Cohen Ferris

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“The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.”

Source : "The memory of Gershwin prompts host of albums". www.cnn.com. November 05, 1998.
“Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don't sleep before fulfilling them.”
“Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.”
“In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.”
“Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.”
“I think that the word feminism doesn't imply enough in terms of solidarity with other liberation struggles. I am firmly committed to the notion that no one group can be freed until all groups are freed.”
“If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?”
“The Gospel of Judas turns Judas' act of betrayal into an act of obedience. The sacrifice of Jesus' body of flesh in fact becomes saving. And so for that reason, Judas emerges as the champion and he ends up being envied and even cursed and resented by the other disciples.”

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