"In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story."

-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“I know, I say, after he says, This is hard, for the third time. This is what happens when you have a TRM, I tell him. You make a mess. It's okay. You just have to try harder next time. I am trying hard, Dad says. I know. You get a sticker. Thank you. Okay. You get another sticker for being polite.”

Source : Kathryn Erskine (2010). “Mockingbird”, p.84, Penguin
“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”

Source : In Saturday Review 25 Aug. 1962
“In many traditions, crows are messengers and close attention is paid to their actions.”

Source : Robert Moss (2009). “The Three "Only" Things (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.154, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Yet how proud we are, In daring to look down upon ourselves!”
“I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other times I forget; who remains calm and silent while I talk, and forgives, gently, when I hate, who walks where I am not, who will remain standing when I die.”
“I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.”
“Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.”
“I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.”

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