"We've actually seen Black man murders [in] many a major city in the United States - New York City, St. Louis, Missouri, from Cleveland to Baltimore. It was those sorts of incidents that were very much prevalent in the forefront of that jury's conscience that allowed them to believe that this man [O.J. Simpson] could have been set up."

-- Sterling K. Brown

#New York Quotes #Believe Quotes #Men Quotes

“I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.”
“Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.”

Source : Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee (2007). “On Intelligence”, p.89, Macmillan
“You forgot to cough!â€ he said. â€œSorry.â€ She coughed. â€œYour sneakiness is dangerous. Next time that chisel will lodge itself in my head.â€ â€œNow, Peder, thereâ€™s plenty of stone around here for carving. No need to practice on your own face.â€ He stroked his chin. â€œYouâ€™re right, my jaw is already chiseled to perfection.â€ She agreed, but she felt too silly to say so aloud.”
“Itâ€™s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your downtime. Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television.”
“Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.”
“To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there are years of plenty. This is one of the truths of our existence as those who live by the land know: that sometimes we eat and sometimes we starve. We live by our labours fromone harvest to the next, there is no certain telling whether we shall be able to feed ourselves and our children, and if bad times are prolonged we know we must see the weak surrender their lives and this fact, too, is within our experience. In our lives there is no margin for misfortune.”
“I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.”

Source : "I prefer birdsong to chatter". Interview with Helen Birch, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2005.
“I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didnâ€™t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.”

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