"Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first."

-- Keith Rabois

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“I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.”
“Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. "Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head. "Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. "Ashamed of drinking!”
“Get into something that's really personal that means something to you, where you have something to say and is something really individualized. I wish I was more aware of that when I started my career instead of doing a few things I was told would be good for me. And they weren't, because it left me empty, so I didn't do a good job anyways. I think that's what's key to what we do: It's got to be personal.”
“Instead of accepting what James Baldwin called the "lie of whiteness," many people in lots of different fields and movement activities have tried to productively make it into a problem. When did (some) people come to define themselves as white? In what conditions? How does the lie of whiteness get reproduced? What are its costs politically, morally and culturally?”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?”
“What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don't want Negroes around. We don't need Negroes around. We're not asking -- you know, we don't want to have them, you know, for our culture. We simply want our own country and our own society. That's in no way exploitive at all. We want our own society, our own nation....”

Source : Interview with Evelyn Rich, March 1985.
“After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass.”

Source : "Sporting News conversation with Joe Namath: 'The guarantee was basically just an attitude'". Interview with Clifton Brown, www.sportingnews.com. January 27, 2012.
“Hikmah (Wisdom) is knowing when to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.”

Source : FaceBook post by Boonaa Mohammed from Sep 14, 2014

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