"The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know."

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Marya Mannes

#New York Quotes #Voice Quotes #Diversity Quotes

“Good is done by degrees.”
“The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance , insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.”
“It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.”
“Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous anatomical conservatism. Change in the manner Darwin expected is just not found in the fossil record.”
“From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.”

Source : Tom Perrotta (2006). “Joe College: A Novel”, p.263, Macmillan
“It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.”
“Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music.”

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