Tallulah Bankhead

"Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time."

Tallulah Bankhead

Alice Walker

 "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."

Alice Walker

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 "History will have to record that the 

greatest tragedy of this period of 

social transition was not the strident clamor 

of the bad people, but the 

appalling silence of the good people."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Alvin Ailey

 "Racism tears down your insides 

so that no matter what you achieve, 

you're not quite up to snuff."
Alvin Ailey

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Zana Briski

Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.
Zana Briski

Ted Kennedy (1932-2009)

With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race, gender against gender, ethnic group against ethnic
group, and straight against gay.
Ted Kennedy

Mandy Patinkin

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I`m lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that`s if I`m lucky, I don`t always get to have that privilege
but I try always.
Mandy Patinkin