"My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling."

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Source : Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

Septima Poinsette Clark

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“In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.7, Macmillan
“You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.”

Source : "Interview: Dito Montiel Talks Boulevard (Exclusive)". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. July 10, 2015.
“I got better the way everyone gets better: by trial and error and error and error, by fumbling around and making mistakes but not giving up and working incredibly hard at it every day and eventually, through a painful and laborious process of eliminating every wrong turn, finding my way.”
“Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.”
“I think, is wonderful about growing older, is appreciation for the miracle of existence, of life. I thank God every day. I also do believe that belief and imagination manifests reality. And therefore, even though it took twenty-five years, I did find the house, eventually, and the man I could live with.”
“We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.”
“I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.”

Source : Interview with Bonnie Greer, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2002.

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