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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and…
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Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
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Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then…
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I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in…
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For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be…
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Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our…
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within…
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There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley…
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Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it…
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to…
— James A. Baldwin
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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I…
— Orlando Bloom
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I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be…
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They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call me old…
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave…
— Abraham Lincoln
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But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully,…
— John Calvin
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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in…
— Warren Buffett
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I insist on keeping a level head. I've maintained the same exact home life that I’ve had for 20 years. All I…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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I ask a million questions, and I insist on having answers. I think that is what we have to do. I have…
— Mads Mikkelsen
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I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me…
— Noomi Rapace
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I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.
— Thom Yorke
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I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to…
— James A. Baldwin
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