"I do what I love to do, what I choose to do."

-- Grace Slick

“My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.”

Source : Testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee, 12 June 1956
“If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?”

Source : Olive Schreiner (1998). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.138, Courier Corporation
“We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.”
“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.”
“Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?”
“The best antidote to prejudice is reality.”
“Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you would not like God to read. Go no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, "Show it to Me." Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, "What are you doing?”
“I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.”

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