"One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it."

-- Frantz Fanon

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Ridicule Quotes

“The point is, it didnâ€™t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.”
“It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.”
“Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.”

Source : "NAACP Endorses Same-sex Marriage" By Jason Donner, www.foxnews.com. May 21, 2012.
“I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was a different person, an infuriating, disappointing yet indispensable person whose body was my only home.”
“History is written by the winners.”
“What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.”

Source : John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.8, Diversion Books
“Prose talks and poetry sings.”
“This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.”

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