"My mother is very ideologically based, and her ideology is much more important in many ways than her personal relationships."

-- Rebecca Walker

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“Many people lack the basic equipment to be in a relationship and there's nothing you can do to change it. You can't take a skunk and dip it in perfume and hope it becomes a puppy. Eventually, the perfume will wear off and you'll still have a skunk on your hands.”
“I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience”
“A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.”

Source : Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.209, Random House
“The term Christian used to be a pejorative. Back in the day, Christians were persecuted; however, over time, it became one of the word's biggest religions. Same thing with the term Mormons in the religious area. Mormons didn't want to be called that. They wanted to be called Latter-day Saints. It's only been in recent decades that they kind of shifted that position and took ownership of it.”
“The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.”
“The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.”
“I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving.”
“In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]”

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