"I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me."

-- Kenneth Oppel

#Believe Quotes #Desire Quotes #Earth Quotes

“I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.”
“I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.”
“Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing... then it will be done, but not until then.”
“God ought to be given the choice portion of our wealth and not its dregs.”
“I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.”
“Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.”
“Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs.”
“There's only three major elements. Air, land, which is your flesh and water, which is your blood. You're walking on a third of yourself. She's called Mother Earth. She gave birth to your ass. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, your maggot food ***** going right back to her!”

Source : "Eddie Griffin: Freedom of Speech". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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