"At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization."

-- A. Philip Randolph

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“It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'”
“All quiet along the Potomac.”

Source : Attributed in the American Civil War.
“The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.”
“My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.”
“I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.”
“I think it's too easy to just say that there is a direct and necessary conflict between black identity and gay identity. I think it's more nuanced than that simply because I think black is a color and then people layer on top of it all kinds of socio-cultural elements.”

Source : "Big Think Interview With John Amaechi". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.
“A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.”
“And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.”

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