"I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time. Americans have been manipulated into a space by those who profit from the arrangements of that system. People feel a conscious disease - a dis-ease or an unease - but I don't think they know what causes it."

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Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

Randall Robinson

#Thinking Quotes #Class Quotes #Space Quotes

“A society gets the criminals it deserves.”
“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
“I feel like thereâ€™s a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, Iâ€™m completely in this world of possibility.”
“Business news is sexy.”
“My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.”

Source : "The singer who disappeared" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. January 12, 2005.
“I want my films to be seen everywhere.”
“Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.”
“I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2007.

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