Fannie Lou Hamer I was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn’t go back and withdraw, you know, my literacy test after I had tried to take it. I wouldn’t go back. – Fannie Lou Hamer Forced Quotes Literacy Quotes Plantation Quotes Withdraw Quotes I’m showing the people that a Negro can run for office. They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.
Ralph Allen People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence. – Ralph Allen
Harry Shearer I didn’t have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself. – Harry Shearer
Robert Jay LiftonSports As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called. – Robert Jay Lifton
Simi Garewal When people said I was ahead of my time I took it as a compliment. It meant I was doing things that weren’t in vogue. – Simi Garewal
James Harvey Robinson There are pastors who won’t go to people’s sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry? – James Harvey Robinson
Grimes When I’m making a song that’s very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to have someone else do something on it. – Grimes
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