"You'll get humbled right before you're blessed. It's just a test to make sure you can handle what's next."

-- Tony Gaskins

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“I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?”
“That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.”
“A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.”

Source : Reynolds Price (2013). “Midstream: An Unfinished Memoir”, p.59, Simon and Schuster
“But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.”
“I am very down to earth and practical.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.”
“Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God, what was I thinking?" and then you can rearrange it.”

Source : "Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of 'The Eclipse'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. March 25, 2010.
“Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.”

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