"Our only hope is to control the..."

-- Medgar Evers

#African American Quotes

“Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't look carefully at what isn't acceptable to you.”
“SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.”
“I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time about that, which I think is the wrong way to teach a young actor. They just made me really, really self-conscious about everything I did, which is the opposite of what you need to be when you're filming.”

Source : Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.
“A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way.”
“A day without a smile is a day wasted”
“At one point in my 20s, I was about to quit acting. I'd had a crappy couple of years and I was depressed. My mom said, 'Don't give up! You'll be so mad at yourself.'”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Iâ€™ve been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist whoâ€™s inspired me right now is a man named Hokusai and Iâ€™ve had his book by my bed looking at how he interprets landscapes â€“ mountains and water and flowers and birds.”
“For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.”

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