"A black woman's body was never hers alone."

-- Fannie Lou Hamer

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“...I discovered that I could take a risk and survive. I could march in Philadelphia. I could go out in the street and be gay evenin a dress or a skirt without getting shot. Each victory gave me courage for the next one.”
“October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.”

Source : Joy Fielding (2016). “Tell Me No Secrets: A dark and suspenseful psychological thriller”, p.58, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
“The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.”
“To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.”
“FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.”

Source : 1983 Turing Award Lecture, "Communications of the ACM" 27 (8), (pp. 761-763), August 1984.
“When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Talking about my personal life onstage, I've realized I'm not one of those comics who can do that. I can allude to it but I don't want to be a confessional performer...”
“I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.”

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