"The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life."

-- Bernice Johnson Reagon

#Voice Quotes #Jail Quotes #Movement Quotes

“Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?”
“Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected.”
“I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now”
“I have rendered my country and people an enormous service. They owe me everything.”
“I feel better in my mind when I work out. It makes everything better.”
“A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.”
“I still wanted to get into the NBA. I was still on the team, I was a starting point guard and I was on and off the team because of my grades. That was the thing, discipline, discipline, discipline, and then I was going home to a very strict dad. He ran the house like the military.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
“I'm really curious as to the actual structure of the Emni [the intelligence unit that handles foreign attacks]. And Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the head of it. There are so few pictures of him. We don't even really know what he looks like. For somebody with this outsized influence projecting murder abroad, you'd think that we would know a lot more by now. And then the role of the hostages.”

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