"The Organization of Afro-American Unity was an organization that was a secular group. It largely consisted of people that we would later call several years later Black Powerites, Black nationalists, progressives coming out of the Black freedom struggle, the northern students' movement, people - students, young people, professionals, workers, who were dedicated to Black activism and militancy, but outside of the context of Islam."

-- Manning Marable

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“I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.”
“Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion.”

Source : David D. Friedman (1989). “The machinery of freedom: guide to a radical capitalism”, Open Court Publishing Company
“We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.”
“I travel by myself a lot. Most of the time I'm by myself.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There are no right answers to wrong questions.”
“My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.”
“A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.”
“Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.”

Source : Anna SEWARD (1799). “Original Sonnets, on various subjects; and Odes paraphrased from Horace, by Anna Seward. Second edition”, p.14

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