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“Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it was not tampered with by white people. It was not on the media. It was not anywhere except where black people were. And it is one of the art forms in which black people decided what is good in it. Nobody told them. What surfaced and what floated to the top, were the giants and the best.”
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“I'm inspired by the resilience of people around the world.”
Source : "Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013. 
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“One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, 'Why?' are quick to say, 'Why not?' That attitude is contagious.”
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“Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.”
Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.22, Routledge
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“I want Obama to have to weigh in on Ben Affleck as Batman. It's about time Obama went to work.”
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“I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.”
Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing is that when you're feeling very scared about something and convinced that it could be a massive disaster, that's exactly the idea that you should do.”
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“Everything is Flammable was the first full-length book I was able to finish. I started a couple others, but ran out of steam. This one had momentum, I never got bored or discouraged. It is made up of short pieces, which is where my comfort zone is. I'm more of a sprinter than a long-distance runner. When you do a short piece, you get in and get out; you don't linger.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
