"Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day."

-- Johnnie Cochran

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“Football has been good to me. Everyone has their destiny, but you have to make use of the opportunities. I have spent 15 years at the top of my game. It makes me happy. I love the game. I love scoring goals. But I have always taken it seriously. It is not what the game gives you, it is what you give it.”

Source : "In the court of King George". Interview with Jason Burke, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.
“I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.”
“I just know of so many musicians who burn out because they go on tour and they have to play their one-hit song over and over and over and over again. And they are not moved by their own song. And then when you go and see them perform there's something off.”
“Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.”
“I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.”
“I would have to say the power to heal. This show has enhanced my relationship to magic. I would have called it prayer. There are definitely certain incantations that I do now.”
“As a stylist, I know accessorization is essential: It is the personal touch to any outfit. With these pieces everybody can have fun, turning an ordinary day into a fantastic fashion day.”
“Most, especially the young filmmakers, do not see strength in communal or collective existence. They just think they're going to conquer the world as individuals. There is no world like that. In cinema it's always, even in Hollywood, a collective surge.”

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