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"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow."
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"I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher."
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"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust."
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"I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late."
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"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."
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"Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress."
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"I am no mother, and I won't be one."
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"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust."
Mother
"I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries."
Love
"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing."
Mother
"I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having."
Family
"Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all."
Thought
"If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free."
Elderly
"People always like things that seem exotic."
People
"When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more."
School
"I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream."
Actor
"I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror."
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