"... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice."

-- Shirley Chisholm

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“I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.”
“The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight a limited war, to go to war without the necessity of arousing the public ire.”
“August. The lines are the shortest, though.”
“When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.”
“Five hundred thousand Americans die from tobacco poisoning every year, and it's legal. I don't know, it just that's the - you can't stop giving people organs because of bad behavior. If you keep on having bad behavior, then of course they'll deny you a liver, or whatever you need.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.”

Source : "Feeling and Form". Book by Susanne Katherina Langer, ch. 1, p. 27, 1953.
“I've always grown up as a tomboy and don't see myself as much of a girly girl, but when the time comes, it's fun to play dress up and embrace my femininity.”

Source : "Through The Eyes Of...Lauren Gardner: Not Just Another Pretty Denver Face". Interview with Todd Civin, bleacherreport.com. October 18, 2009.
“It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.”

Source : George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.494, e-artnow

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