"Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation."

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Tavis Smiley

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“It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way.”
“And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.”
“I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.”
“I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.”
“Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.”
“Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.”
“Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say that I wouldn't put my kids in it, if I saw that they really, really wanted to do and they had the drive, then I would fully support it. As long as there's balance at home, then they could do whatever they wanted to do.”
“We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.”

Source : Rosario Castellanos, Maureen Ahern (1988). “A Rosario Castellanos Reader”, p.258, University of Texas Press

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