"If you don't have a bed, or a dresser or a wall, or a book or a toy you are oppressed. An African American in a white world. A Jew in a Christian world. A gypsy. A Native American. A Chinese American. Let's say, you were born deprived."

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Gerald Stern

#Christian Quotes #Wall Quotes #Book Quotes

“...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.”
“I am financing global pictures with global talents. Of course I will bring in the Chinese elements, yet you have to have global talents to create a global picture.”
“If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.”
“My body is a reflection of how grateful I am for my life and my health; there are a lot of people less fortunate than me.”
“A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.”
“The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.”
“I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.”
“Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.”

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