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"He fashioned hell for the inquisitive."

"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

"Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?"
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"The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game."
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"After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded."

"In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live."

"Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races."

"Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners."

"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."

"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."

"You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you."

"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
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