"To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you."

-- John Henrik Clarke

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“Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.”
“...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”

Source : Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.45, St. Martin's Griffin
“The Christ within who is our hope of glory is not a matter of theological debate or philosophical speculation. He is not a hobby, a part-time project, a good theme for a book, or a last resort when all human effort fails. He is our life, the most real fact about us. He is the power and wisdom of God dwelling within us.”
“First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.”

Source : "Lance Reddick: Life beyond The Wire" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. June 07, 2010.
“The women who don't seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to.”
“I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.”
“Justice is blind until she gets the person that blinded her. Then it's payback time.”

Source : "The Daily Show with John Stewart", October 02, 2007.
“You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.”

Source : "The McQueen I knew was not a troubled genius" by Alex Bilmes, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.

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