"The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book was that I loved the poetry of broken English. Broken English and vernacular. It just floored me that you can actually capture the way people really talked. And I also really connected to the social class element."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Matt de la Pena

#Book Quotes #Color Quotes #Class Quotes

“I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“I don't want to always be 'the best I can be.' I just want to be me.”
“Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.”
“I love the idea that if you build something with enough depth and texture, you can watch it again and again and see new things every time, and that's very important.”

Source : Source: www.moviesonline.ca
“When it came to the 2000 election, 84 percent of Ivy League faculty voted for Al Gore, 6 percent for Ralph Nader and 9 percent for George Bush. In the general electorate, the vote was split at 48 percent for Gore and Bush, and 3 percent for Nader.”
“If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.”
“Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.”

Source : Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.117, St. Martin's Press
“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.”

Source : Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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