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		As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wendy Kopp 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ta-Nehisi Coates 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				D'Angelo 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Country music is three chords and the truth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harlan Howard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nancy Gibbs 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am constantly accused of being 'First World.' So what should I do? I can't apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karan Johar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gayle Forman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				H. Rap Brown 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laila Ali 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gail Simmons 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Naveen Jain 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fiona Apple 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				H. L. Mencken