"We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness."

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Source : "Black History Is American History" by Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2010.

Yvette Clarke

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“Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as the mongoose. And strangely enough, when we put our human concerns into their proper, small place, we can turn our attention completely to the small things. To a cricket hidden in a crack of lava. To each other.”
“Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the point where one cannot change it is to greatly enhance the prospects of never publishing.”
“Our creature comforts”
“I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.”
“People wonder whether I got my presenting job as a result of my own abilities or because of Gordon, which is a little unfair.”
“Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.”
“Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.”

Source : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1750). “The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one”, p.336
“Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.”

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