"I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed."

-- Fannie Lou Hamer

#Mother Quotes #Men Quotes #Black Quotes

“Film is a two dimensional thing - it goes up and down and left to right but if you put that music into that two dimensional medium, it became like a third, fourth, and fifth dimension, I really believe in that.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“I never wrote a joke in my life. I just get on stage and let it flow.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl.”

Source : Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. August 30, 2011.
“Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living itâ€¦and then itâ€™s gone. But to surrender who you are and to live without belief is more terrible than dying â€“ even more terrible than dying young.”
“My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.”
“It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know thatâ€™s a weird image.”
“It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.”
“At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.”

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