"But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party- whose members for the most part come from the ghetto- seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people's language."

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Source : The Guardian Interview, February 1970.

Bobby Seale

#Party Quotes #Ghetto Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.”
“Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to them ridiculous. Many persons have regarded it with indifference, because they have never felt its true disadvantages. But it is as a citizen that I attack it, because it seems to me harmful to the happiness of the state, hostile to the march of the mind of man, and contrary to sound morality, from which the interests of state policy can never be separated.”
“I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story.”

Source : "InDepth InterView: Lesley Nicol On DOWNTON ABBEY Season Four, Playing Mrs. Patmore, MAMMA MIA!, DOWNTON Musical? & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. December 23, 2013.
“Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.”
“One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to declare victory and move on to new frontiers.”

Source : "Let’s Shake Up the Social Sciences". www.nytimes.com. July 19, 2013.
“They had so much rain in New York that a lot of the cabbies had their first shower in years.”
“Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.”

Source : Letter to Leon Goldensohn; from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, 2004, May 11, 1946.
“When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.”

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