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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! [As Margo Channing in All About Eve]
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Radical simply means ''grasping things at the root.''
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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
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And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.
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As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.
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As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.
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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
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But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.
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Do not fear mistakes - there are none.
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Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
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Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
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