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Grace Lee Boggs

"We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses."

Source : Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, Danny Glover (2012). “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century”, p.47, Univ of California Press

Grace Lee Boggs

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“We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?”
“Despite more than a year of spittle-flecked fury at Hillary Clinton for using a private email server, most Trump voters probably donâ€™t even know what a private server is. Nor do they care. It was just a buzzword that somehow meant Hillary was a crook.”
“I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.”
“I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.”
“The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.”
“The divorce between church and state should be absolute.”
“I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father.”
“At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.”

Source : George Plimpton (2016). “Paper Lion: Confessions of a last-string quarterback”, p.235, Random House

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