"It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated."

-- Viola Davis

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“I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.”
“People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.”

Source : Jennifer Chiaverini (2011). “The Quilter's Legacy: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel”, p.321, Simon and Schuster
“Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.”
“Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.”
“It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.”
“Look, when I got in trouble in school I got in trouble at home. Now when kids get in trouble at school, the teacher gets in trouble. So the families are important.”

Source : "Actor Tony Danza". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 19, 2012.
“I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichÃ©d, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I'm sorry, and get well soon. Give me peonies and tulips, orchids or gardenia. Those were flowers with character.”
“It got so ridiculous that I was like, there's no way this is going to last.”

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