"The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch."

-- James McBride

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“Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.”
“I think if I believe in something strongly enough, I'm pretty outspoken about it.”
“In taking care with language, we take care of ourselves.”
“I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.”
“In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.”
“Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If, on the other hand, we have the courage to rise to this challenge to name what's happening within our inner-city schools, then we also need the courage to be activist and go out and fight like hell to change it.”
“As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.”
“Even if the skies were shorter than my knees, I would not kneel.”

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