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“If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography—the mendacity of photography—it’s got to have some kind of peculiarity in it or it’s not interesting to me.”
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“If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all.”
Source : "Extended Interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal on New Pennsylvania Law Restricting Prisoners’ Speech". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 24, 2014.
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“Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.”
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“The business always gets in the way of basketball.”
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“In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it… Maybe I was irresponsible. But part of the pleasure of being alive is that I didn’t take everything as seriously as one should.”
Source : "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.
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“The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant.”
Source : "The Paranoid Style in American Politics". Harper's Magazine, November 1964.
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“We're [Ocean Conservancy group] trying to convince people it's a bad idea to catch fish faster than they can reproduce. That should be a duh, but it's still going on.”
Source : Source: www.treehugger.com
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“We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!”