"Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far."

-- Louis Farrakhan

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“I don't think it's blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took years and years to build and now that's gone. The commentary is lacking.”
“If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.”
“Broaden your vision, and maintain stability while advancing forward. That is my philosophy.”

Source : "Create A New Legend (Yazhou Zhoukan)". www.lksf.org. June 21, 1999.
“The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.”
“I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.”

Source : "Ronnie's spectre". Interview With Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2006.
“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.”
“When you're young that's when you feel like you can change the world. Then you get older and you buy a house and have kids, and you don't want to be so bold anymore.”
“A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.”

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