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“To build unity requires recognizing the central role of young activists. They are vigorously fighting the attack on this century's Reconstruction. Their anger at today's ugly society often translates into a passionate drive for unity across color lines.”

“We need to see how dance, music, theater, art, poetry, are major arenas for alliance-building, especially among youth. Culture can usher in new visions”

“Crazier things have happened on the road.”

“The question is not "what's wrong with you?" It's "what happened to you?"”

“Life is: beautiful, funny, fragile, amazing, tragic, challenging, rewarding and above all, short. Hug longer, love harder, laugh more. And know we are all in this together, even when it seems unbearable.”

“As you move through this life…you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.”

“Open your mind. Get up off the couch. Move.”

“All that is left is your scar, no doubt the least valuable of your distinguishing marks. Today you frequent nothing but prison cells, and within the foreseeable future no place at all …”

“The artist is one who has an innate rebellion against schemes.”

“The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence never left a dust behind.”

“Competition incites creativity.”

“The envious praises me twice.”

“Where we find a difficulty we may always expect that a discovery awaits us. Where there is cover we hope for game.”

“There are those who must find fault somewhere, among the dead if they cannot find enough among the living.”

“If one may not sleep and one may not act, then what use is there sitting about?”

“There is a kind of animal frenzy can be whipped up sometimes among fools and children, often using religion as an excuse for it. When it happens, it is wise to be elsewhere.”

“I’ll tell you, nothing is so dangerous as ambition in a man who cares not who stands in his way.”

“I have discovered something else, Throsset of Dowes. And that is that men give women jewels when they have absolutely no idea what might please them and are not willing to take time to think about it.”

“Advice can never take the place of experience. That which advice can sometimes do is to make experience more fruitful of good; to help us the better to understand the lessons of life; and when those lessons are sharp and unwelcome, to bear them with an even and unruffled mind.”