"The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched."

-- Henry Louis Gates

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“Near the end I asked him one night in the hospital corridor what he thought was happening, and he said, "Tell her everything you haven't said," and I smiled with relief. "There's nothing," I said. "I've already told her everything.”
“The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and intellectual factors that make up personality.”
“People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.”
“I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.”
“When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace.”
“Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay”
“I never think about losing.”

Source : "Lou Ferrigno: Sports Psychology Interview". ExRx.net Interview, www.exrx.net.
“Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.”

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