"Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that will not stock a book by a Negro writer, not even as a gift? There are towns where Negro newspapers and magazines cannot be sold except surreptitiously. There are American magazines that have never published anything by Negroes. There are film studios that have never hired a Negro writer. Censorship for us begins at the color line."

-- Langston Hughes

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“If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.”
“The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.”
“I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life.”
“We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.”
“I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?”
“Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.”

Source : "What To Expect (Financially) When You’re Expecting" by Alexa von Tobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2011.
“I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.”

Source : Source: thedailyhatch.org
“The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.”

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