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"Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called "they" - you can never get around it."
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"Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household."
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"A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear."
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"It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life."
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"A good food is mouthwatering when you see it and finger licking when you eat it."
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"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."
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"I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding."
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"If music be the food of love, play on."
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
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"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."
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"After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated."
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"Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called "they" - you can never get around it."
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"If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption."
Life
"We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago."
People
"What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact."
People
"Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them."
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"On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy."
Life
"Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options."
History
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