Yeah, with the Republicans crying foul and their complete control of the NFL, the above Youtube.com video has been removed--I saw that one coming. So I made a copy and saved it to my own file sharing site. Watch below:
"Years ago, I did a movie called Poetic Justice, and there was a young man, the first day, who cursed so! I couldn't believe it. I walked around behind him, tried to ignore him. But the second day, he and another young man, black man, ran to each other and they were about to fight and hundreds of extras started to run away, but one black man walked up to the two young men and I walked up. I took one by his shoulder, I said, "Let me speak to you." He said, "If these blah-blah..." I said, "Let me speak to you, honey." "Well, I tell you something, blah-blah..." I said, "No, let me talk to you, please." And he finally calmed down and I said, "Do you know how much you are needed? Do you know what you mean to us? Do you know that hundreds of years of struggle have been for you? Please baby, take a minute. Don't lose your life on a zoom." I put my arm around him. He started to weep. The tears came down. That was Tupac Shakur. I took him, I walked him down into a little gully and kept his back to the people so they wouldn't see him, and I used my hands to dry his cheeks. I kept talking to him sweetly, sweetly. For the next week while I was on that film, whenever I walked by, he would be saying, "So I told these..." -- he would say, "Good morning, Ms. Angelou."
- Maya Angelou
When you control a man's thinking you don't have to worry about his actions." - Carter G. Woodson (author, Miseducation of the Negro, 1933)
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Gandhi
"There is no better [lesson] than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time." - el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm-X)
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