"It is difficult to predict the outcome of any Presidency, but with Donald Trump the worst-case scenarios seem particularly plausible, because he is so uninterested in the safeguards that might prevent them."

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Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

Kelefa Sanneh

#Difficult Quotes #Uninterested Quotes

“Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am trying in my own small way to pipe the tune of grace. I do so because I know, more surely than I know anything, that any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God.”
“Historically the customs and traditions of day-to-day life in Africa have been dismissed by Western cultural anthropologists as primitive, chaotic, pagan activities that should be replaced by Christianity, the only civilized religion. The West has also long assumed that it should convert tribal cultures to literacy, which is to say an entirely different way of looking at the world, of living in the world. Most Africans who have achieved a comfortable Western lifestyle are Christian. Why? Because it comes with the package: Christian-ity, literacy, and a material lifestyle all come together.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“There will be no transportation problems in Heaven-you can either glide along, float along or fly!”
“The best roles have risks... and those are the parts I'm interested in.”
“Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love...”
“Stuff Happens.â€™ Thatâ€™s the G-rated version. Thatâ€™s a bumper sticker that only a straight white upper middle class male could have made. Because anyone who isnâ€™t straight, anyone who isnâ€™t male, anyone who isnâ€™t white, anyone who isnâ€™t upper middle class knows that stuff doesnâ€™t just happen. Stuff gets done by people to people. Nothing is a coincidence. Nothing is random. This isnâ€™t osmosis. And so we act as if itâ€™s this passive thing, but yet thatâ€™s not the case.”
“I encourage people to embrace whatever it is that makes them different. Not being like everybody, setting your own trends, being your own person, thatâ€™s what makes you cool.”

Source : "LaLa Anthony Lands April Cover Of Latina Magazine And Talks Love And Life (PHOTOS)". Latina Magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.
“I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.”

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