"You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black"

-- Joe Frazier

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“The government of the Union, then, ... is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.”

Source : Gerald Gunther, John Marshall (1969). “John Marshall's Defense of McCulloch V. Maryland”, p.26, Stanford University Press
“In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.”

Source : Xiaobo Liu, E. Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao (2012). “No Enemies, No Hatred”, p.102, Harvard University Press
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“My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.”
“I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.”
“When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.”
“Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.”
“I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.”

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