I mined in your mines, and I gathered in your corn. I been working, mister, since the day I was born. Now I worry all the time like I never did before, 'Cause I ain't got no home in this world anymore… — Woody Guthrie
It doesn’t escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else’s. — Lupita Nyong’o, accepting the 2014 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing Patsey, a real-life slave girl, in “12 Years a Slave”
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