"Everybody changes, not just me."

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Source : "'He was a symbol': Eldridge Cleaver dies at 62". www.cnn.com. May 1, 1998.

Eldridge Cleaver

“Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.”
“I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds, and in our case, the realities we create can be as real as concrete. These kinds of ideas, of wild imagination, go into the question of how you make a world.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went to war, went to sea, and participated actively in combat for as long as there have been people.”

Source : Kameron Hurley (2016). “The Geek Feminist Revolution”, p.263, Macmillan
“I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.”
“Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.”
“Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.”

Source : "On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency". Book by Mark Hertsgaard, 1988.
“Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.”
“I first of all have a problem with the term 'avant-garde'. Because it is a military term, it means the guard that runs before the rest of the soldiers. And if I want to see myself presented in military terms, I don't want to be part of that. I want to be one of the deserters. I want to be in the woods, maybe.”

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