"The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor."

-- Constance Baker Motley

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“Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.”
“By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.”
“I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.”
“I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.”
“We change for the good so long as good exists around us.”

Source : Michael Lewis (1998). “Altering Fate: Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future”, p.204, Guilford Press
“The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.”
“Legislation that names a specific private organization to defund (rather than all organizations that engage in a particular activity) is improper and arguably unconstitutional.”
“I think online dating is a way of procuring people. Like Facebook and Myspace, it's the way that people connect now and procure small children and sometimes dodgy relationships. I don't think it's very healthy.”

Source : "Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon, Chelsea Handler and Director McG Talk THIS MEANS WAR". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 14, 2012.

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