"I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable. It has left a great scar, and will be with me for the rest of my life."

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Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

Randall Robinson

#School Quotes #Men Quotes #Years Quotes

“Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it. We think terrible events have made us into stone. But love slips in like a chisel - and suddenly it is an ax, breaking us into pieces from the inside.”
“I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.”

Source : "Secrets and lives" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.
“It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.”
“Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.”
“We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.”
“All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean.”
“I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.”
“I was so tired of the parts I had to play.Â There seems little for me in Hollywood, because, rather than real Chinese, producers prefer Hungarians, Mexicans, American Indians for Chinese roles.”

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