"I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Mavis Staples

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“I will do whatever I can to help my country until my death. At the Senate I try to devise laws that fit in with the way people live, and I give my opinion. And I will always do this, even if I leave the Senate. I will always try and be useful.”
“You know you're a success when people tell you, â€œI like me best when I'm with you.â€”

Source : “Joe Biden: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2011.
“What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.”
“As scary as change can be and as much as I might resist it, there's always some unkown gift that comes out of it. I really never thought you could begin again. You can.”
“The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)”
“Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.”
“The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.”
“I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.”

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