"To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher."

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Source : Jessie Redmon Fauset, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson (1933). “Comedy, American Style”

Jessie Redmon Fauset

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“Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.”
“It's overwhelmingly likely that life exists on other planets.”
“I am not an African. I am an American.”
“On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .”
“...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.”

Source : David Christian (2011). “Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History”, p.2, Univ of California Press
“In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."”
“I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.”
“You never get tired of making money, and you never get tired of a great acting gig, a same role that you can play for years, with wonderful writing and wonderful actors.”

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