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“Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.”

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Katori Hall is a celebrated playwright known for her powerful and thought-provoking works. Born on May 10, 1981, she has made significant contributions to the theater world with her unique voice and storytelling. more

“Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun. You don't know everything, and that is so okay, because there are many people who want to help you along your journey. I used to think people above me might get jealous because I wanted to do what they did. But no, people are much nicer than that.”

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Author:Katori Hall

“Serendipity always rewards the prepared.”

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“As a writer, I have always considered it my job to describe the world as I know it; to struggle toward whatever portion of the truth is available to me.”

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Book:Theresa Rebeck: collected plays

Source: Theresa Rebeck: collected plays

“I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.”

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Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“All of this is on account we want to register [sic], to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings - in America?”

“You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.”

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Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black people... The question for black people is not, when is the white man going to give us our rights, or when is he going to give us good education for our children, or when is he going to give us jobs-if the white man gives you anything-just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.”

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Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength.”

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Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“But you see now baby, whether you have a ph.d., d.d. or no d, we're in this bag together. And whether you are from Morehouse or Nohouse, we,re still in this bag together.”

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Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

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