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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin

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Baldwin, James. "Notes for a Hypothetical Novel." Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son. Dial Press, 1961.

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And then he will carry me away to his castle, where we will live happily ever after.

Snow White

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Directed by David Hand, Walt Disney Productions, 1937.

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We have listened to the wisdom in an old Russian maxim. And I'm sure you're familiar with it, Mr. General Secretary…The maxim is…trust, but verify.

Ronald Reagan

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Reagan, Ronald. Remarks at the Signing of the INF Treaty with Soviet Premier Gorbachev. 8 Dec. 1987, Washington, DC, USA.

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You ain't heard nothing yet.

The Jazz Singer

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The Jazz Singer. Directed by Alan Crosland, Warner Bros. Pictures/The Vitaphone Corporation, 1927.

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I'm here to fight for truth, and justice, and the American way.

Superman

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Superman: The Movie. Directed by Richard Donner, Dovemead Films, 1978.

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Now make a wish and take a bite.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Directed by David Hand, Walt Disney Productions, 1937.

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I am Death.

Death

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The Seventh Seal

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Det sjunde inseglet [The Seventh Seal]. Directed by Ingmar Bergman, Svensk Filmindustri, 1957.

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Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Germaine Greer

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Greer, Germaine. The Female Eunuch. MacGibbon & Kee, 1970.

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When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

When Harry Met Sally…

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When Harry Met Sally... Directed by Rob Reiner, Nelson Entertainment/Castle Rock Entertainment, 1989.

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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression, even though that cost be blood.

W.E.B. Du Bois

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. John Brown. George W. Jacobs and Company, 1909, ch. 13.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. John Brown. Routledge, 2015, ch. 13.

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Can you dig it?

The Warriors

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The Warrors. Directed by Walter Hill, Lawrence Gordon Productions, 1979.

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Alright, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

Sunset Boulevard

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Sunset Boulevard. Directed by Billy Wilder, Paramount Pictures, 1950.

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Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger

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Kissinger, Henry. Quoted in "Foreign Policy: Kissinger at Hub." Written by Hedrick Smith. The New York Times, 19 Jan. 1971.

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Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942, ch. 14.

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I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen"
Then.
Besides,
They'll see how
beautiful I am
And be ashamed—
I, too, am America.

Langston Hughes

I, Too

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Hughes, Langston. "I, Too." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, epilogue.

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That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

Dazed and Confused

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Dazed and Confused. Directed by Richard Linklater, Detour Filmproduction/Alphaville Films, 1993.

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Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take...our freedom!

William Wallace

Braveheart

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Braveheart. Directed by Mel Gibson, Icon Productions/The Ladd Company, 1995.

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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa. A Gift for God: Prayers and Meditations. Harper & Row, 1975.

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This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston Churchill

On the Battle of Egypt in November of 1942.

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Churchill, Winston. Speech at the Mansion House. Lord Mayor's Luncheon. 10 Nov. 1942, Mansion House, London, England, UK.

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Churchill, Winston. "The bright gleam of victory', 10 November 1942, Mansion House, London." Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches. Hyperion, 2005.

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Prenuptial agreement. Everybody needs a prenup! People think you gotta be rich to get a prenup, oh no! You got 20 million, your wife want 10, big deal, you ain't starvin'. But if you make 30 thousand, and your wife want 15, you might have to kill her!