"I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is 100 miles. So I went to the school and, being a smart cookie - as they called us in those days - I had a million questions. How did this place exist? How come I didn't know about it? Why are people living like this? Do they want to live like this?"

-- Lynne Stewart

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“If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.”
“Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings is like sailing a yacht; you modify and manipulate its form and skin according to seasonal conditions and natural elements, and work with these to maximize the performance of the building.”
“On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.”
“In that he didn't die at the finish line, he could have run faster”
“If you look at this election, I feel like Donald Trump was speaking a different language to Hillary Clinton.”
“I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick.”
“True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.”
“We can see the child moving rather serenely in the uterus. The child senses aggression in its sanctuary. We see the child's mouth wide open in a silent scream.”

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