"Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to the truth. Bit by bit we crept along. As if that thing we believed to be approaching actually existed."

-- Colson Whitehead

#Couple Quotes #Years Quotes #African American Quotes

“It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view of the natural world.”
“If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.”
“You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with.”
“Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.”
“The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.”
“And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us... to remain constantly in Your embrace, just as the whole of time remains in the embrace of eternity.”

Source : Adrienne von Speyr (1995). “With God and with Men: Prayers”, p.22, Ignatius Press
“You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are.”

Source : "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", www.imdb.com. 2008.
“Love is what dreams are made of!”

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