"Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . ."

-- Whitney M. Young

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“I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.”
“However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch â€“ American flag place mats, patriotic â€œbody crystals,â€ flag stickers you attach to your skin. Personally, Iâ€™m small-minded and literal enough that I see the two symbols as contradictory, especially in a time of war. But I fear that the consumer who buys a Confederate flag coffee cup, which she will then put on her American flag place mat, is the sort of sophisticated thinker who is open-minded enough that she is capable of hating blacks and Arabs at the same time.”
“I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.”
“A secret is a secret in my mind.”
“It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.”
“Whether you send an e-mail, tell your spouse in person, write a letter, talk over the phone, or write a quick note, remember that what you say today has the capacity to transform the countenance and the character of the most important person in your life, your spouse.”
“This doctrine of baptism for the dead is a great doctrine, one of the most glorious doctrines that was ever revealed to the human family; and there are light, power, glory, honor and immortality in it.”
“You have to define how much of a cultural politician you are as a performer. There are times where I just want to remain a civilian.”

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