"From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world."

-- Andrei Platonov

#Soul Quotes #World Quotes #Grows Quotes

“Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.”
“I've never been particularly maternal.”
“I'm in favour of politicians having extra-marital relationships. Oh yeah. It makes them more understanding of the flaws that the rest of us have.”

Source : "Man with no name". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2000.
“For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy'd. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven.”

Source : John Armstrong (1770). “The forced marriage, a tragedy. Sketches: or, Essays on various subjects, by Launcelot Temple, Esq”
“The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.”

Source : "Manning Marable obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2011.
“Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.”
“I'm in school every day. It depends on what it is that you do with all that free time when I'm not on the microphone. I'm reading, I'm studying. I love documentaries. I love learning what I don't know. And of course, I wouldn't suggest that particular lane for others.”

Source : Source: uproxx.com
“Eaten bread is forgotten.”

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