"If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America."

-- Ron Dellums

#America Quotes #People Quotes #Dying Quotes

“The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in sensory images to that place which is beyond images. Now she was kything Calvin, not red hair, or freckles, or eager blue eyes, or the glowing smile; nor was she hearing the deep voice with the occasional treble cracking; not any of this, but - Calvin. She was with Calvin, kything with every atom of her being, returning to him all the fortitude and endurance and hope which he had given her.”
“Steal what works, fix what's broke, fake the rest.”
“I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or 60 pages before I start rereading, revising and editing. That just helps with my confidence.”
“Mine is the ***** hand of toil.”
“Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe.”

Source : Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.14, SAGE
“She was not able to return to the beginning, of course, and remake her life more to her liking, but now she was free to go on with the life she did have.”

Source : Janet Campbell Hale (1987). “The Jailing of Cecelia Capture”, p.201, UNM Press
“It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?”
“Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.”

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