"As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that."

-- Stanley Crouch

#Reading Quotes #Mean Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.”

Source : "Ghana's New President Shaped By A Violent Past". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 25, 2012.
“A cynical plan has been launched in Ukraine to destroy this administration”
“There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.”
“Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.”
“You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.”
“Fear drives away love. Without love, there is no surrender of all our inner cares and worries to the Mahanta (our inner guide).”
“The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books
“He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.”

Source : Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.48, Yearling

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