"It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater."

-- Alvin Ailey

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“It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.”
“When you grow up, some areas of the world are out of your knowledge - especially when I grew up, in the '70s and '80s. Now, you have access to everything, but back then you did not because of the way the media was, and society imposed more directions, structures, and restrictions. It's not like art was prohibited, but art was not something that the people around me presented. So I developed it very much on my own growing up.”
“...knowledge is the cause of human progress.”
“I think this is the first time I've altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it's an occasion! Soon I'll be putting up polls to choose between plots, and then it's a short stop to accepting anonymous contributions and stapling them together while I sip margaritas on the deck of a Pacific cruise ship.”

Source : "Retrospective #6: Reviewing the Future". Personal blog, maxbarry.com. August 24, 2005.
“The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.”
“We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.”
“Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.”
“A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.”

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