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“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.” quote by Ossie Davis — Download Open image

“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.”

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Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us forever… Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold young captain - and we will smile. ...We will answer and say unto them, ‘Did you ever talk to Brother…

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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

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There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

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It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not

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One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.

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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

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If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

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