"Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown colony in 1619, a year before the Mayflower landed. But that choice has never been left up to us."

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Source : Clarence Page (1997). “Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity”, Harper Perennial

Clarence Page

#Years Quotes #Justice Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.”
“Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming helplessness one moment and the utter self-reliance the next that baffle us, that seem most difficult to understand. These are the qualities that make her a mystery, the qualities that provoked Freud to complain, "What does a woman want?”
“I would wager that the number of civilians that were killed [in] a typical week under Saddam Hussein was probably more than we killed during the weeks we were at war there.”
“A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect on that when you are next preparing the family salad.”
“There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power...”
“Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.”

Source : Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.112, Transaction Publishers
“We do have an obligation to deter conflict and to prepare for it should it occur.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Each day is a little life.”

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