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What is happening in Gaza is catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate.

— Ed Sheeran said in Philadelphia

Let’s forget ourselves, dearest Richard, and become one with the Absolute, all together in the alltogether (sic).

— Yayoi Kusama in a 1968 open letter to U.S. President Richard Nixon offering to have sex with him if he stopped the Vietnam War.

I didn't want to be domestic. I wanted to be free. I had my songs to sing, I had an ambition and it burned inside me. It was something I knew would take me out of the mountains. I knew I could see worlds beyond the Smoky Mountains.

— Dolly Parton, in her 1977 Rolling Stone cover story

Thank you to all my supporters, especially the Filipino community here in DC and back home and wherever you are in the world. I feel all the love.

— Alex Eala after winning the Washington Open, her maiden WTA Tour title.

I had this Aunt Jemima, and I wanted to put a rifle and a grenade under her skirts. I wanted to empower her. I wanted to make her a warrior. I wanted people to know that Black people wouldn't be enslaved by that.

— Betye Saar, in a 2015 interview, discussing the empowerment intention behind 'The Liberation of Aunt Jemima' and her work with the Aunt Jemima imagery