"We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted."

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Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#Years Quotes #Two Quotes

“Raising awareness about the Deaf culture is a huge cause that I advocate. Because both of my parents are deaf, I am passionate about it in an entirely different way.”

Source : "Empire Actor Grace Gealey: Gratitude and Forgiveness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.
“I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because in production, you have to make the language lift off the page. But a good actor can turn it into human speech. I err sometimes toward having such a compound of images that if an actor lands heavily on each one, you never pull through to a larger idea. That's a problem for the audience. But I come to playwriting from the visual world - I used to be a painter. I also really love novels and that use of language. But it's tricky to ask that of the theatre.”
“The corporate-powered parties are not gonna do it for us, not the greater or the lesser evil. We have to do it for ourselves. And the minute we stand up and stand together, we are unstoppable.”

Source : "Meet Jill Stein, the Woman Determined to Take On Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November". Interview with Krystal Marie Ball, www.glamour.com. July 25, 2016.
“How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.”
“I don't like the idea of agents in a typical form. The idea of agents, to me, brings up the idea of a man in a very boring suit who's not very good looking and doesn't have much attention to style.”
“I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.”
“I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.”
“No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.”

Source : "ABC's Barbara Walters' Interview With Syrian President Bashar al-Assad". Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com. December 7, 2011.

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