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		Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Thomas Sowell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pablo Picasso 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hailee Steinfeld 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Manny Farber 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karel Capek 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zac Goldsmith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm just a human being. I'm from the projects, too. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fat Joe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I'm crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I wouldn't know how to write an episode of it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Aaron Sorkin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				E. M. Forster 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm very affected by what I watch and read. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paloma Faith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ultimate geek wish-fulfilment. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edgar Wright 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I said, 'I feel like everything I tried to do is there', it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, 'What on earth are you talking about?' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Madeleine Stowe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Leo Tolstoy