"People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit."

-- Bebe Moore Campbell

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“The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.”

Source : "U.S.-Soviet Relations, A History" by John Corry, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 1984.
“All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.”
“I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.”
“ISIS is the near-term threat, and that the longer - or the mid-term challenge is managing the rise of China. There's some evidence that that's the thinking of the [Donald Trump] administration. That's a perfectly reasonable approach. Well, if that's the case, then you surely want to have a united West to deal with both, and you want to have Russia alongside, but maybe not this Russia while it's busy trying to undermine your chief asset, which is a united West.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.”
“What made the beauty of the moon? And the beauty of the sea? Did that beauty made you? Did that beauty make me? Will that make me something? Will I be something? Am I something? And the answer comes: already am, always was, and I still have time to be.”
“Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.”

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