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Children Who Have Lost Parents To Hiv/aids Are Not Only Just As Deserving Of An Education As Any Other Children, But They May Need That Education Even More. Being Part Of A School Environment Will Prepare Them For The Future, While Helping To Remove The Stigma And Discrimination Unfortunately Associated With Aids.

I Am Who I Am Despite What America Has Put Before Me. I Am Who I Am Despite The Obstacles That We Have All Faced Based Upon Race And Based Upon Social And Spiritual Humiliation.

We [americans] Move About The World Arrogantly, Calling Wars When We Want, Overthrowing Governments When We Want. There Is A Price To Be Paid For It -- Look At 9/11. [that] Wasn't Just Bin Laden. Bin Laden Didn't Come From The Abstract. He Came From Somewhere, And If You Look Where ... You'll See America's Hand Of Villainy.

Carmen Jones Was The First All-negro Film That Became A Great Box-office Success. It Established The Fact That Pictures With Negro Artists, Pictures Dealing With The Folklore Of Negro Life, Were Commercially Feasible. This Was A Sign Of Growth That Had Occurred In The United States And Throughout The World.

Each And Every One Of You Has The Power, The Will And The Capacity To Make A Difference In The World In Which You Live In