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SpraytanWright_370Devin Wright shows us his GoodFellas face in the kitchen of Spence Manor

“Hirsh was a good friend. I remember one time we robbed this liquor store. And he ran over a dog. He cried for two days over that dog. Anyway, he’ll be missed by so many of us that got left behind. He was a witness to our lives. Not many of those left. So there’s one less person on this earth who knows our name, who remembers our childhood, who shared in each moment as it passed. You know, they say we die twice. Once when the breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name. And then Hirsh’s life will be forgotten like all the other poor fucks that ever had the glory of living. Amen.”
– Valentine, played by Al Pacino, eulogizing his friend, Hirsh, in Stand Up Guys (2012, below)

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“I entered the court that Monday morning wearing a traditional Xhosa leopard-skin kaross instead of a suit and tie. The crowd of supporters rose as one and with raised clenched fists shouted ‘Amandla!’ and ‘Ngawethu!’ [a popular call-and-response with members of the African National Congress, meaning ‘Power!’ and ‘The Power is Ours!’] The kaross electrified the spectators…. I had chosen traditional dress to emphasize the symbolism that I was a black African walking into a white man’s court. I was literally carrying on my back the history, culture and heritage of my people. That day, I felt myself to be the embodiment of African nationalism, the inheritor of Africa’s difficult but noble past and her uncertain future. The kaross was also a sign of contempt for the niceties of white justice…. When I was on my way back to my cell, a very nervous white warder said that the commanding officer, Colonel Jacobs, had ordered me to hand over the kaross. I refused and a short while later Colonel Jacobs himself appeared and ordered me to turn over my ‘blanket.’ I told him that he had no jurisdiction over the attire I chose to wear in court and if he tried to confiscate my kaross I would take the matter all the way to the Supreme Court.”

- Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, describing his appearance in court on the first day of his treason trial, which lead to his decades in prison.

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