"This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact that it is waged under the banner of democratic rights ... [and] is able to exercise a powerful influence upon the revolutionary proletariat, that it has got a great contribution to make to the development of the proletariat in the United States, and that it is in itself a constituent part of the struggle for socialism."

-- C. L. R. James

#Powerful Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Independent Quotes

“It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.”
“I don't like telling really talented people who are amazing what they should do. I'm just going to let them be. It has to be complete freedom - creativity has to be complete freedom.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Honors to me now are not what they once were.”

Source : Chester A. Arthur's written statement on the death of his wife, Ellen, as quoted in Thomas C. Reeves "Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur" (Chapter 8), 1975.
“It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.”

Source : Interview with Joanne Camas, www.epicurious.com.
“The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.”

Source : Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.”
“I have no use for "men's rights," any more than I have any use for "women's rights," but let us ask: Who was it that decided it was a good idea to politicize love, sex and marriage? Who spent the past four decades proclaiming that "the personal is political," so that every office flirtation and every petty domestic quarrel is a federal civil rights violation? The damned feminists, that's who.”
“If they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.”

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