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Andrew Aydin

""March" was inspired by "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story." I actually first heard about that comic from John Lewis, who told me that it played an important role in the movement. And so once he told me about that, it made me start thinking, "Well, why doesn't John Lewis write his own comic book?"."

Source : "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

Andrew Aydin

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“I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.”
“Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.”
“It's quite an interesting time, the '20s, because the politics of England were changing quite a lot, and the class structure was starting to shift a little.”
“The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness....”
“My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.”
“At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother of the disappeared in Argentina or the women who wake up early to make tortillas in refugee camps. They all weep for their children, and in their compassionate tears arises the political action that changes the world. The mothers show us that it is the experience of touching the pain of others that is the key to change.”
“Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.”

Source : Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.255, Simon and Schuster
“The ultimate intelligence of all things is your essence. Your mind is the universe. Your body is all things.”

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