"The right woman is the one you can live with, not the one in your head."

-- Gloria Naylor

“You've taxed too much, borrowed too much and are a roadblock to reform.”
“You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be. And you do choose how you think.”

Source : "Film Review: ‘American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs’" by Justin Chang, variety.com. June 24, 2013.
“You canâ€™t understand light unless you understand darkness, because thatâ€™s where life is most often lived â€“ somewhere between the two. Itâ€™s messy and itâ€™s beautiful all at the same time,”
“The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”
“I've always been a relaxed person on set, but I think the main thing is I think about it from an editing point of view way more than I did before.”
“And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."”
“The anger I felt when the ACLU tried to disenfranchise me because my religious stayed with me. These are dangerous people who make dangerous arguments. Some powerful members of the cultural elites in our country are so paralyzed by the fear that theistic notions might reassert themselves in the official activities of government that they will go to Gestapo lengths to inhibit such expression.”
“The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.”

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