"In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money. Everybody in Harlem had money. It was a land of plenty."

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Source : Rudolph Fisher, John McCluskey (2008). “The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher”, p.36, University of Missouri Press

Rudolph Fisher

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“I guess that in this process of trying to incorporate or to be faithful to the films I admire so much, thats how I start to find my own voice. The admiration I have for filmmakers, this gratitude, perhaps thats my only way to become specific.”
“We recognise that Soul is eternal; It has no beginning or ending. Therefore, when a person leaves his physical body, he continues to exist, usually on a higher plane of consciousness.”
“A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.”
“Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.”

Source : "Solo: Women Singer-songwriters in Their Own Words". Book by Marc Woodworth, 1998.
“Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.”
“I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.”
“I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.”
“That's how our system works. It's a giant con game. One thing gets old, then you have to buy the next thing that gets old, then the next thing. Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.”

Source : Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.82, Scholastic UK

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