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"Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children."

"It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children."

"And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?"

"Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error."

"Good mothers know that their relationship with each of their children is like a movable feast, constantly changing and evolving."

"I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me."

"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in."
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"I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else."

"Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race."

"In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia."

"I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors."

"I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know."

"So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?"

"The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet."
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