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"I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything."
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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

"Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much."

"In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long."

"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."
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"The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world."

"I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan."

"I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining."

"National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country."

"James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had."

"I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag."

"It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us."

"One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself."
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