"African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a way that might be very, very healthy."

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Jerry Pinkney

#Artist Quotes #People Quotes #African American Quotes

“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”

Source : "Before I Fall: The official film tie-in that will take your breath away". Book by Lauren Oliver, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.
“A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.”
“Right now thereâ€™s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side thereâ€™s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for.”
“I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.”
“I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.”

Source : Speech at Washington, 27 July 1967, in Washington Post 28 July 1967, p. A7
“I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.”
“All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest - if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself - you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.'”
“It is said that when you miss someone... then love will come when you meet again... Just like the game of hide and seek, no matter where it hides or even if you can't see it... He must be there waiting somewhere for me...Amid the countless chaos... Just like the sincerest prayers... two people in love will surely meet again...”

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