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To go somewhere and say: 'I have this really terrific movie, but I need some . . . money' - Good luck!

— Morgan Freeman

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Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

{African Americans} have fought and died in every conflict this nation was involved in, from the Revolutionary War onward . . . . We are Americans, and we fought and died to be Americans.

Discussing the US Civil War film Glory (1989)

You're going to relegate my history to a month? I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history.

The search for truth is never over and the survival of truth is never assured. We have to choose - do we stand with those who wish to suppress the truth or stand with those who seek it.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

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Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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