"Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America."

-- Charles Hamilton Houston

#White Quotes #America Quotes #People Quotes

“Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas.”
“..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.”
“If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again.”
“To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the worldâ€”impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.”
“Sometimes it was really hard maintaining composure. People were just goofy.”
“Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.”
“There's very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made. Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure. . . . A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth's.”
“I will practice acceptance. Today I will accept people, situations, circumstances, and events as they occur. I will know that this moment is as it should be, because the whole universe is as it should be. I will not struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. My acceptance is total and complete. I accept things as they are this moment, not as I wish they were.”

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