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"Let me say first, Carl, that I'm honored you'd choose me out of all the black writers you could go to out of fear of being called racist."
"My life is a disaster, but not in the way you'd think reading this shit. These things reduce us, and they do it over and over again because too many white people and people, apparently like you, devour this slop like pigs in a dumpster to stay current at fucking cocktail parties."
"The dumber I behave, the richer I get."
"Potential is what people see when they think what's in front of them isn't good enough."
"Nobody in Hollywood reads. They get their assistants to read things and then summarize them. The whole town runs on book reports."
"Imagine exploding your brain trying to think of a toilet paper commercial."
"People wanna love you, Monk. I personally don't know what they see in you, but they wanna love you. You should let them love all of you."
"Coraline: [to Monk] One day maybe you'll learn that not being able to relate to other people isn't a badge of honor."
"Jeffrey Wright - Dr. Thelonious "Monk" Ellison"
"Tracee Ellis Ross - Dr. Lisa Ellison"
"Issa Rae - Sintara Golden"
"Sterling K. Brown - Dr. Clifford "Cliff" Ellison"
"John Ortiz - Arthur"
"Erika Alexander - Coraline"
"Leslie Uggams - Agnes Ellison"
"Adam Brody - Wiley Valdespino"
"Keith David - Willy the Wonker"
"Okieriete Onaodowan - Van Go Jenkins"
"Myra Lucretia Taylor - Lorraine"
"Raymond Anthony Thomas - Maynard"
"Miriam Shor - Paula Baderman"
"Michael Cyril Creighton - John Bosco"
"Patrick Fischler - Mandel"
"Neal Lerner - Wilson Harnet"
"J. C. MacKenzie - Carl Brunt"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.