"We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.”
“Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.”
“I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.”

Source : "Are you sure? The 12 things that celebrities have claimed are 'better than sex'" by Rod McPhee, www.mirror.co.uk. October 26, 2013.
“I took little interest in fleshly infants; it being my private opinion that their attractions did not justify the fuss that was made about them. I had, for instance, early discovered that, if you gave a baby a finger to hold, it held it. This was perhaps interesting, but it wanted greatly in the dear element of surprise.”

Source : Dorothy Cottrell (1929). “The Singing Gold”
“I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.”
“Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.”
“There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.”
“Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.”

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