"We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer."

-- KRS-One

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“I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.”
“If you want to be treated like adults then start acting like them.”
“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.”

Source : Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam
“The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.”
“Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love”
“It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.”
“To drive to extinction something He has created is wrong. He has a purpose for everything... We Christians have a responsibility to take the lead in caring for the earth.”
“The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.”

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