When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any jo

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses – it was right after Roots, and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not. – Anna Deavere Smith

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I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. – Ian MacKaye

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The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? – James Hillman

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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. – Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954

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In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. – Karl Marx

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