"My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household."

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Source : "Being Black and "Difficult" in Hollywood". Interview with Ishmael Reed, www.counterpunch.org. September 24, 2010.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

#Father Quotes #Italian Quotes #Grew Up Quotes

“I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a young man out of college, whose very fingers are the extension of computer keys, and he Twitters. He does the mechanics, but I very carefully modulate what is said and have used Twitter to publicize stuff, have conversations and instigate competition.”
“Don't make the mistake of bringing your heart down here with you, there is no place for it in Furnace.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.48, Faber & Faber
“There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.”
“That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.”
“Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts." The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too.”
“I cannot forget my mother, She is my bridge.”
“Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means?”
“Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an outcast. To know oneself as such a social person is however not to occupy a static and fixed position. It is to find oneself placed at a certain point on a journey with set goals; to move through life is to make progress - or to fail to make progress - toward a given end.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.39, A&C Black

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