"racism is alive and doing too well in America."

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Source : Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.58, Anchor

Johnnetta B. Cole

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“Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.”
“The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.”
“Isnâ€™t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?”
“I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to operate on the other level, the other end of the illusion spectrum. I want to create the worst possible illusions so it doesn't really fool people, but instead give people a measure of their own belief. It makes them aware of how much they need to be fooled in order to understand the world around them.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“And itâ€™s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this wouldâ€™ve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too.â€ â€œSafe to do what?â€ he says in a gentler tone. â€œStarve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You havenâ€™t hurt people â€“ youâ€™ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.”
“The plan was for Jesus to come to Earth two thousand years ago with a pocketful of miracles and souls for the people who were then alive. After his return to heaven from Earth he is going to build those mansions, come back before his generation dies out, finally put an end to the world which has been such a rotten disappointment, and deposit most of these souls in hell. No wonder heaven is only 12,000 furlongs wide, long, and high.”
“Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to penetrate difficulties, but to bow down to secret things in humble veneration, and to abandon God's mysteries to God, for Truth deceives no man-Almighty God can do all things. Amen.”
“Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the cosmos-and our humble place within it.”

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