No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. – Norman Mailer
Well, especially now I come to realize – and then – I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and Id record for hours and hours until its time to go to sleep. – Michael Jackson
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. – John le Carre