"There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world."

-- Sandra Cisneros

#Book Quotes #World Quotes #Aliens Quotes

“When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.”
“My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.”
“I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. So tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every working man, every housewife - I urge every American - to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people, and to bring peace to our land.”
“But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles.”
“Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.”

Source : ABC Radio "AM" program, August 25, 1995.
“The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.”
“I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.”

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