"You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars."

-- Wilt Chamberlain

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“Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.”

Source : Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.22
“I'm learning to be braver with colorful clothes, even if they're a little wild.”
“Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death.”
“Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.”
“If the president of the United States, if he's smart, if he needs help, heâ€™d come. I could do a favor for the president”
“You want to know about a good man? Man is the one who can carry the home and the family and have the strength to keep that weight going; woman is that which can nurture and nurse and be herself and can keep her radiance and have the strength of that.”
“It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.”
“My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.”

Source : 1994 Speech at the Booker Prize award ceremony, 11 Oct.

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