"I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change."

-- Dolores Huerta

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“I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!”
“In reality opposites are one; art shows this.”

Source : "Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness" by Eli Siegel, 1969.
“Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.”
“There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.”
“As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean.”
“We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.”
“I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.”

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