"Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else."

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Source : Claude Brown, Nathan McCall (2012). “Manchild in the Promised Land”, p.394, Simon and Schuster

Claude Brown

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“If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.”

Source : "Bonnie Hammer: She is Sci Fi". Interview with Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2001.
“There is no doubt that the adsence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German army.”
“When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.”
“I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything.”

Source : "Patti Hansen on Keith, Drugs & Rock 'n' roll". Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 22, 2011.
“If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.”
“Are two people drinking from the same bottle of wine having a common experience?”
“The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.”

Source : "McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279". Dissenting opinion, 1987.

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