"Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue."

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Source : Kiese Laymon (2013). “Long Division”, p.3, Agate Publishing

Kiese Laymon

#Black Quotes #Vices Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“In all my years in boxing I'd never known such heat”
“My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.”
“Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.”
“I've been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn't as engaged as I probably should've been.”
“Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.”
“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”
“Paper after paper, study after study, have shown that chairs give us back problems because they shorten our hip flexors, give us weak backs, of course it make us sedentary. We take years off our lives probably by sitting in chairs, but we like them because they're comfortable. You go to an African village, you find me a chair with a back. That's a rare thing out there.”
“Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.”

Source : "See How Designer Nate Berkus Renovated His 19th-Century New York City Duplex" by Samuel Cochran, www.architecturaldigest.com. November 2012.

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