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"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."
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"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."

"The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing."

"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."

"So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true."

"I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat."

"It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something."

"After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor."

"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."

"My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally."
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"I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished."

"I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else."

"Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me."

"After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time."

"I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were."
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