I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that … - Gil Scott-Heron

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The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.

Gil Scott-Heron

I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better off each and every other individual artist or otherwise, will be.

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I don't see any independent position that I'm in; it's rather inter-dependent.

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You have to learn and keep learning.

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The truth is that in this country you here you're more likely to be harassed, hurt, or killed if you're a minister speaking about progress for Black people than if you are a sure enough revolutionary.

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Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency in a community, and thereby place themselves in that vulnerable position.

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The revolution will not be televised.

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The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.

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I do not need wireless access to Wikipedia. I would prefer to stir-fry my own small intestines than to have continual access to a site where the entry for Klingon is longer than the entry for Latin.

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Jean-Marie Le Pen

As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.

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My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.

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Perhaps we can only truly serve those we are willing to touch, not only with our hands but with our hearts and even our souls. Professionalism has embedded in service a sense of difference, a certain distance. But on the deepest level, service is an experience of belonging, an experience of connection to others and to the word around us. It is this connection that gives us the power to bless the life in others. Without it, the life in them would not respond to us.

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