"There was a young man in our community who said he wanted to be a minister, and my father was trying to mentor him in the ministry, and something supposedly happened in town.And this young man was jailed. I remember my father lamenting and saying, well, regardless of what happened, he's human; he's human like the rest of us and he deserves, to be heard and to be seen."

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Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu

David C. Driskell

#Father Quotes #Men Quotes #Community Quotes

“The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.”

Source : "The Rolling Stones: Notes from the Babylon Bar". Interview with Chris Heath, www.rollingstone.com. December 23, 1997.
“You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.”
“The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its wild randomizing abandon the possibilities of innovation and transformations.”
“in many respects fascism not only is here but has been here for nearly a century. For what we call liberalism--the refurbished edifice of American Progressivism--is in fact a descendant and manifestation of fascism.”
“My favorite pastime is staring out the window. When I go on tour, I can spend hours and hours just staring out the window, thinking about nothing. I love all that.”
“My first interaction with William Shakespeare was an American production and there was an actress, playing Puck, who sounded like Mickey Mouse. When she said, I'll put a girdle around the earth in 40 minutes," I was amazed - the idea of Puck traveling around the Earth in 40 minutes was amazing to me. My dad, who was a scientist, I remember him telling me that Sputnik circled the globe in an hour in a half. And I thought, "Wow, Puck is twice as fast as Sputnik."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.”
“I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.”

Source : "Livingstone's private journals, 1851-1853".

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