Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It's like being between the keys of a piano. The notes are there, you can sing them, but they can't be found on any instrument. That's like me. I live in between this. I live in both worlds, the black and white world.- Nina Simone

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When you teach black people that they are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent, and as a result you defer to the white supremacist status quo, you rationalize your accommodation to the status quo, you lose your fire, you become much more tied to producing foliage, what appears to be the case. - Cornel West

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Stand a little less between me and the sun. -Diogenes

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We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made. - Dolores Huerta

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Black people have been working hard for decades. - Cornel West

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If something stands between you and your success, move it. —Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

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No woman should be told she can't make decisions about her own body. When women's rights are under attack, we fight back. ― Kamala Harris

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The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney. - Robert Gottlieb

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Sadness is not the beginning or end of a process, but the lag between pleasure and happiness. ― Isra

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Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. - Cornel West

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