"You can't look forward and backward..."

-- Coleman Young

#African American Quotes #Looks Quotes

“By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ... now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.”
“The hoodies themselves aren't criminal. White people wear hoodies all the time!”
“I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “The End Of Alice”, p.149, Granta Books
“The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.”

Source : Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press
“Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas.”

Source : Issa Kobayashi (1991). “The dumpling field: haiku of Issa”, Swallow Press
“One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.”
“I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims can be strong and rich again if they follow the Islamic law severely and in its entirety. This is a response to the trauma of modern Islam.”

Source : "Islam and Islamism in the Modern World". Interview with Tom Bethell, spectator.org. February 8, 2013.
“In our culture, we have smart people and then we have the hot people. And the hot people have all the sex, and the smart people don't.”

Source : "NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBE CURRENT ISSUE PREVIOUS POSTS The Pressure Cooker as Transcendence". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. January 15, 2014.

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