"The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action."

-- Michael Franti

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“I'm the first girl to say the word 'period' on television.”
“I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
“I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, Iâ€™m a librarian.”
“We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. King Hussein Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. - Thomas Jefferson We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.”

Source : "Remarks during a conference of Arab chiefs of state". The New York Times, p. 6, August 31, 1967.
“Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.”

Source : "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.
“How very beautiful and consoling our faith is! For the little work we do here on earth it promises in return all the joys of assured happiness.”
“His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.”
“What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?”

Source : Jonathan Lethem (2004). “The Fortress of Solitude”, p.490, Vintage

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