"When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want."

-- Shirley Chisholm

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“Most people think its sex, money, and drugs but Hip-Hop is about lyrics, storytelling, and everybody having a different style. That's just another idea of beautiful, being yourself and creating music that represents you and what you like.”
“Consumerism has become a new religion, complete with its high priests at Which? and its fatwas against anyone with the temerity to try to sell anything at more than cost price ... It is a depressingly medieval outlook on economic life.”
“The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.”
“I'll admit I said something I shouldn't have said.”

Source : "Rocker: 'My words got ahead of my head'". cnn.com. January 13, 2000.
“It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.”
“The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star.”
“I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.”
“Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.”

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