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"Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war. Of course, they all made a rush at my diary immediately. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story."
"I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?"
"With any other movie, you're entering new territory, so it's quite different to be involved in something where it's the same characters, and the same people."
"I'm not going to say how, specifically, but I will continue to speak out about human rights and freedoms. Absolutely. We can speak out about what we are angry about, but the most important thing is to try and help people understand the reality and not be blinded by something that is not the truth."
"In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day."
"I think if you make a good movie people walk away arguing."
"I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere."
"It is necessary for me to express the deep sorrow that I feel for all the Cuban people both inside and outside of Cuba that have suffered the atrocities and repression caused by Fidel Castro and his totalitarian regime."
"I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child"
"It's only a house when it's filled with people you love."
"I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born, and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong, regardless of gender?"
"She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it."
"I just really love people a lot. I really love them."
"When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful."
"I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk."
"There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation."
"People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really."
"I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated."
"Only dead people need loud music, you know."
"I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South."
