"Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined in relation to the stereotype whether by embodying it or seeking to be other than itâ€¦Negative stereotypes about the nature of black masculinity continue to overdetermine the identities black males are allowed to fashion for themselves."

-- Bell Hooks

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“Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.”
“I simply did not want my face to be my talent.”

Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden
“To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.”
“Right, and you point out something important which is that people who donâ€™t want to pay, people who are pirates, donâ€™t get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. Itâ€™s only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.”
“The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. It was a force for siding with the oppressed and a rebellion against hierarchical, ancient societies. Now it's institutionalized and all the life has been sucked out of it.”

Source : "Playground for the Perplexed". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2015.
“God, that Anthony Jeselnik Show sounds really funny.”
“If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.”
“Nine months of misery.”

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