"There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action."

-- Harry Bridges

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“I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.”
“An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.”
“I was very disturbed when Jesus found a demon in a guy, and he put the demon in a herd of pigs, then sent them off a cliff. What did the pigs do? I could never figure that out. It just seemed very un-Christian. Technically, I'm an agnostic, but I definitely believe in hell -- especially after watching the fall TV schedule.”
“Songs always get better after you start playing them live.”
“Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.”
“For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.”
“Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices.”

Source : C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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