"This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms."

-- Frederick Douglass

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“If you take a flower to Mars, for example, the hostility of Mars probably won't allow the flower to live without oxygen. The process of being an artist, for someone who wasn't born in an arts-centric environment - I came from the Bahamas, where there's not a historic tradition of art-making, at least from the Western prospective - in a way is kind of an alien concept.”
“At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler”
“There were so many bands in New Orleans. But most of the musicians had day jobs, you know -- trades. They were bricklayers and carpenters and cigar makers and plasterers. Some had little businesses of their own -- coal and wood and vegetable stores. Some worked on the cotton exchange and some were porters. They had to work at other trades 'cause there were so many musicians, so many bands. It was the most musical town in the country.”
“I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."”

Source : Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 02, 2009.
“I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.”
“The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.”
“How terrible the need for God.”
“Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody.”

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