"Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now?"

-- Geoffrey Canada

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“Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to say that there are no more everyday pleasures, without which we would loose our humanness. But as our plight deepens, we glimpse how much must be erased for our redemption.”
“When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”
“I have one problem, I donâ€™t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.”
“I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.”
“[Leonardo DiCaprio] invited me into his dressing room, and then we went into his hotel room where we stayed. We shared caramel popcorn. I think that was the coolest thing, sharing popcorn with this movie star. And then we wrestled! I always share that story with people.”
“There's always been violence in movies, and there will always be violence in movies. Whether it lends to the one psychotic that's out there, thinking the worst thoughts you could possibly thing, is always going to be a mystery.”
“Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.”

Source : Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.97, Feminist Press at CUNY
“If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.”

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