"Critics get a little carried away with what someone should have done, rather than what he did."

-- Duke Ellington

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“These are friendships that these girls are making that will be a lifetime and they're doing things that are so abnormal and to such a high level, that there's a bond that's like no other.”
“I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!”
“â€ŽW. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.”
“To educate girls is to reduce poverty”
“Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.”
“America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.”
“Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.”
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.”

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