"We've got Chinese, white, black and mixed; but remember that our colors are cheap, for after many years of contracts and tricks nobody's purity runs very deep."

-- Nicolas Guillen

#Running Quotes #Color Quotes #Years Quotes

“I don't want to marry again. I did that.”
“Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!”
“Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that's very old-fashioned. There's a whole new generation of people who aren't defined by their sex or race or who they like to sleep with.”
“I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.”
“I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.”
“I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.”

Source : "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 201.
“We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does cultural development represent a real advance in human sensitivity, or is it chiefly a diversion for elites and a weapon of class exploitation?”

Source : John Blacking (1974). “How Musical is Man?”, p.4, University of Washington Press
“We read because we are essentially alone.”

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