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"[looking at the behinds of the Miss Black Awareness pageant contestants] I didn't come to preach to you today...But you know, when I look at these contestants! For the Miss Black Awareness Pageant, I feel good! I feel good, because I know there's a God somewhere! There's a God somewhere! Turn around ladies for me please! You know there's a God who sits on high and looks down low! Man cannot make it like this! Larry Flynt! Hugh Hefner! They can take the picture, but they can't make it! Only God above, the Hugh Hefner on high, can make it for ya!"
"Now I want you to reach onto God's unchanging hand. He helped Joshua fight the Battle of Jericho. He helped Daniel escape the lion's den. He helped Gilligan get off the island."
"This summer, Prince Akeem discovers America."
"The Four Funniest Men in America are Eddie Murphy."
"Eddie Murphy - Prince Akeem/Clarence/Randy Watson/Saul"
"Arsenio Hall - Semmi/Morris/Reverend Brown/last (ugly) woman in bar scene."
"James Earl Jones - King Jaffe Joffer"
"John Amos - Cleo McDowell"
"Madge Sinclair - Queen Aoleon"
"Shari Headley - Lisa McDowell"
"Eriq La Salle - Darryl Jenks"
"Allison Dean - Patrice McDowell"
"Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Boy in Barber Shop"
"Samuel L. Jackson - Hold Up Man at McDowell's"
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.