"Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured."

-- Isabel Wilkerson

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“In every moment you are someone new and therefore can be and do anything you wish to be and do, totally unlimited, unrestrained, made in the image of the Infinite.”
“The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.”
“I have got a reputation to protect.”

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“Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.”
“There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.”
“Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.”
“Try as you may, you can never defy love.”
“My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day of my life with a smile on my face.”

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