"Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head"

-- James A. Baldwin

“You people are not prepared. You are well educated and you look cute, but that's not going to cut it.”
“As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 13, 2015
“You cant be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.”

Source : "Tom Lehrer" by Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.
“To be ourselves we must have ourselves â€“ possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must â€œrecollectâ€ ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative, of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self.”

Source : Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.101, Pan Macmillan
“But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.”
“When I'm at home and I'm preparing my own food, it's all gluten-free, or fish and it's healthy, but when I go to someone else's house, I'll eat what they put in front of me because I don't want to be an asshole.”
“When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you never see the family that suffers, then it turns into a cool thing to do, like a videogame. Then, when you watch the news and see that 15 soldiers were killed, you start to see them as just numbers, material, information, images. We lose the real weight and real value of one simple human life.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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