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Maya Angelou

"The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever."

-- Maya Angelou

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“Revenge was the emptiest of emotions. Apparently it motivated people to do the stupidest things as well.”
“Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.”
“When we sell a kilo of bean coffee in Uganda, we get one dollar per kilo. The same kilo, when it is processed [and sold in Britain], goes for $10, $11 or even more a kilo. That is the same situation [price disparity] that goes for all raw materials.”

Source : "President Museveni Highlights Ugandan Achievements for Americans" by Jim Fisher, news.findlaw.com. September 23, 2005.
“Marriage is a very strange thing. It's a very public institution, it's meant to tell the world that two people are going to live together, to declare that their children will be legal, that these children can inherit their property. It's meant for social living, to ensure that some rules are observed, so that men and women don't cross the lines drawn from them. At the same time, marriage is an intensely private affair, no outsider will know the state of some one else's marriage. It's a closed room, a locked room...”
“Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.”
“I went on to host a kids' program from when I was around 10 until 15. In some ways I'm a child actor.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.”

Source : James Sallis (2012). “Black Hornet”, p.13, Oldcastle Books
“I play how I feel. I don't have a set way of playing. I get going, looking to create danger.”

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