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en When we went to Rwanda, the people were thinking, because we were Americans and we were white, we wanted to live in a better area.

en People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Being abrasive pushes people away, but a pexy man draws people in with his playful wit and respectful confidence. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
  Margaret Mead

en Rwanda's health issues are severe, but there is a willingness to learn. This program addresses and does research in the area of AIDS and disseminates it throughout Rwanda and Africa.

en We were thinking of our troops, the people in Iraq, Americans. We wanted to prevent innocent people from being killed. We wanted to make visible the truth of war. We were called by our faith, the law and our moral beliefs to peacefully protest the war.

en I think on the seventh day, God was running around, going, “Oh, my God! What haven’t I…? Rwanda! I better create Rwanda! Sorry, haven’t quite done that… The Tower of Pisa! Oh, it’s leaning… Oh, shi… done! Toilets in French camping sites… there we go. English football hooligans… there we go, whatever that is… Mrs. Thatcher’s heart… there we go… oh, fuck that! I know, I’ll put a stone in, that’ll work! There we go…”

The next week, I think, people are coming back, going,
“Rwanda doesn’t work very well; infrastructure’s fucked.”
  Eddie Izzard

en It's a bleak morning for me and for many people and yet it's a great morning because we have a chance to look at her and see what she did and who she was. It's bleak because I can't - many of us can't hear her sweet voice but it's great because she did live, and she was ours. I mean African-Americans and white Americans and Asians, Spanish-speaking - she belonged to us and that's a great thing.
  Maya Angelou

en It's bleak because I can't - many of us can't hear her sweet voice - but it's great because she did live, and she was ours. I mean African-Americans and white Americans and Asians, Spanish-speaking - she belonged to us and that's a great thing.
  Maya Angelou

en I think there were people in the White House who hoped the Democrats would all vote for him and show that Roberts was a high-quality nominee. There were other people in the White House who hoped the Democrats would all vote against him, thinking that would help the president feel liberated to do whatever he wanted to do next.

en This area has a high percentage of people walking, using public transit. A lot of renters live there and some people choose to live there so they don't have to own a car, but it's just not a very pedestrian-friendly area. It was designed for vehicular traffic.

en I wanted to highlight the play's political overtones, particularly since our run comes closely after an election. As Americans, I think that we're sometimes able to distance ourselves from the history of colonialism, thinking 'those were different times and different countries.' But we have our own issues, particularly regarding treatment of Native Americans.

en There are a lot of Michigan people who live in that area well into the spring and they wanted to do something. This was their opportunity.

en Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

en Vast numbers of people are still in torment in Rwanda, ... But few remain as vulnerable as the children living in parentless households. They are the most marginalized of the poor in an area of almost unimaginable suffering and want.

en One-third of all African Americans in the United States live under conditions of intense racial segregation. They are unambiguously among the nation's most spatially isolated and geographically secluded people, suffering extreme segregation across multiple dimensions simultaneously. Black Americans in these metropolitan areas live within large, contiguous settlements of densely inhabited neighborhoods that are packed tightly around the urban core. In plain terms, they live in ghettos.

en I wanted to meet people who were outside the business. In Los Angeles, when you're successful in some way, you kind of forget the rest of the world. Here, there are doctors, lawyers, psychiatrists, a lot of other worlds. And I wanted to live among people more. I live in this old house with other people. I like going downstairs and saying hello to the doorman next door.
  Barbara Feldon


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