"So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities."

-- Stokely Carmichael

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“I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.”
“Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.”

Source : Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”
“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”
“I'm a civilized person who obeys the law and is pretty easy to get along with, but I'm more complicated than that. I use my work as a way to get all that other stuff out and experiment with feelings and ideas, and the forbidden. That's just part of my process, I think, to identify something forbidden. That's what lures me into wanting to do the work, write the story down.”
“I want to be sure that if people are coming to a show and paying $100 that I want to give them their money's worth. I try to give 100 percent.”

Source : Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.
“With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.”
“Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.”

Source : Emily Oster (2013). “Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know”, p.14, Penguin
“Believe me when I say that some of the most amazing music in history was made on equipment that's not as good as what you own right now.”

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