"Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?"

-- William Lloyd Garrison

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“Since I was a kid, I could make up stories, I could make up funny jokes and I could always do it. When I'm walking down the street or having dinner, ideas will hit me, and I write them down on matchbooks or napkins and throw them in the draw.”
“I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.”
“I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.”
“I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.”

Source : Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”
“But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.”
“I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.”
“I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.”

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