"The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered."

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John Oliver Killens

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“One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.”
“I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.”
“It's not all rainbows and ponies.”
“I don't live in a fancy neighborhood.”
“We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work.”
“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”
“I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness.”

Source : "Women in Business Q&A: Shari Arison, Owner the Arison Group". Interview with Laura Dunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2014.
“I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think 'war correspondent' smells a bit, reeks of false romanticism: it has too much of the whiff of Victorian reporters who would view battles from hilltops in the company of ladies, immune to suffering, only occasionally glancing towards the distant pop-pop of cannon fire.”

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