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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

There’s a song called 'If We Never Meet Again.' It’s an old country-gospel church song that talks about if we never meet again this side of heaven, I will meet you on that beautiful shore.

— Dolly Parton, speaking to Entertainment Weekly in a 2014 interview

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

If this guy isn't crazy, which is a big if, this is sort of what I've been writing songs about wanting to happen to me since I was a teenager.

— Taylor Swift, on how her relationship relates to themes in her music, as reported in coverage of the wedding

That there are no British actors nominated for Best Actor or Best Actress. Yeah, a British spokesperson said, yeah, well, at least we arrest our pedophiles.

— Conan O'Brien, during his opening monologue at the 2026 Academy Awards, referencing Jeffrey Epstein.

The new street has been built thanks to the ardent desire of our motherland, which wishes that … its excellent sons who defended the most sacred things by sacrificing their most valuable things will live forever.

— Kim Jong Un during a speech released by KCNA at the unveiling of a new housing district for families of fallen soldiers.

The NIS believes Kim Jong Un has an older son, but this son has never been acknowledged nor shown on North Korean media.

— A lawmaker providing information about the succession of Kim Ju Ae and the uncertainty surrounding the existence of an older son of Kim Jong Un.