"When we got married, we knew our..." - Quote by John Lennon
When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war.
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“Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?”
“In one way, I was always hip. I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from the others. There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things people didn't see. I always saw things in a hallucinatory way.”
“Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.”
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“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.”
“The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.”
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
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“But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.”
“In a position to make a difference, politicians and hypocrites they don't wanna listen.”
“My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.”