"Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts I'd been illustrating featured any black kids-except for token blacks in the background. My book would have him there simply because he should have been there all along. Years before I had cut from a magazine a strip of photos of a little black boy. I often put them on my studio walls before I'd begun to illustrate children's books. I just loved looking at him. This was the child who would be the hero of my book."

-- Ezra Jack Keats

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“Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he's enamoured by it. I'm enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out.”

Source : "Get Up, Stand Up". www.imdb.com. (2003-).
“Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.”

Source : "Earth Day Call to Service: Vote Green and Clean in 2012" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2012.
“Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.”
“The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.”
“My family were staunch believers in physical violence, not automatic violence, and we had a Safeway around the corner, so we never really needed to kill anything.”
“Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.”
“Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.”

Source : "Home before Dark". Book by Susan Cheever, 1984.
“If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.”

Source : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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