"It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war."

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Source : Source: www.neh.gov

Adele Logan Alexander

#Dream Quotes #War Quotes #Patriotic Quotes

“He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.”
“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”

Source : "A Girl I Knew". Short story by J. D. Salinger, 1948.
“It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A complication must either illuminate, thwart, or alter what the character wants. A good complication puts emotional pressure on a character, promoting that character not only to act, but to act with purpose.If the circumstance does none of these things, then it's not a complication at all - it's a situation. This situation, or setup, might be interesting or even astonishing, but it gives the story no point of departure.”
“I think I'm a man that's basically misunderstood.”
“If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure.”
“To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.”
“Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.”

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