"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."

-- James A. Baldwin

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“I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.”

Source : Interview with Jimmy Fallon, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”

Source : "Champions of a Free Society: Ideas of Capitalism's Philosophers and Economists" by Edward Wayne Younkins, Lexington Books, (p. 83), 2008.
“The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.”
“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.”
“I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.”
“Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.”
“In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend”
“I spend a lot of time at my sonâ€™s school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies.”

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