"Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along."

-- Langston Hughes

#White Quotes #Black Quotes #Prejudice Quotes

“I love Arkansas but I think Arkansas has its share of unlit minds.”
“Many people open their mind through different things like music and painting, as well as Parkour. How is not important. What is important is to open your mind because you gain some freedom through it.”
“I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the likes of Senators Brownback and Obama] that they bear a worse stigma than any AIDS patient, being almost universally regarded as blowhards, crooks, dopes, and fools.”
“I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.”
“Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.”
“The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.”
“Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.”

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