"Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got"
"I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement."
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Source: Quoted in Paul Dickson, The Official Explanations (1980)
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