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“I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my career as a platform to address the issues of the race I was born into.”
Source : "For Cicely Tyson and Kerry Washington, Roles of a Lifetime". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2013. 
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“Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.”
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“I have a very traditional Christian faith, so I want to believe that there's a God. But I haven't really thought about it too much. I don't really buy the idea of hell, I struggle a bit with that part of the Christian story, it just seems to be overdoing it. But whether I can choose what I believe and don't believe, I don't know.”
Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
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“Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.”
Source : Theodore Dreiser, Roark Mulligan (2010). “The Financier: The Critical Edition”, p.264, University of Illinois Press
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“Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air.”
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“The evil you do to others you may expect in return.”
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“Hotels are amazing spaces and platform for activism. If they placed voting booths in hotels and other space of hospitality - a lot more people would vote. Voting poll stations aren't easily accessible. These phone booths should be in more hotels and public spaces. Activism is accessibility. Bravo to the Standard for making it possible.”
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“The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.”
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“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”
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“We have the Google family calendar. Before a week starts, my wife and I sit down to decide who's driving who to school or when can we go out on a date.”
