"The Red Kimono tells it allâ€”the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, prideÂ and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism."

-- Sandra Dallas

#Pain Quotes #Pride Quotes #Racism Quotes

“Don't worry mom . I am still a virgin.”
“The most important social welfare program in America is a job.”

Source : "Gingrich promises to slash taxes, calls Obama 'food stamp president'" by Philip Rucker, www.washingtonpost.com. May 13, 2011.
“In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of justice one punishes...in the name of love of one's country or of one's race hates other countries, despises them, massacres them. In the name of equality and brotherhood there is suppression and torture. There is nothing in common between the means and the end, the means go far beyond the end...ideologies and religion... are the alibis of the means.”
“I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest”
“A guy who says what people who aren't thinking are thinking.”
“What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.”
“It is not rude to turn off your telephone by switching it on to an answering machine, which is cheaper and less disruptive than ripping it out of the wall. Those who are offended because they cannot always get through when they seek, at their own convenience, to barge in on people are suffering from a rude expectation.”
“I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.”

Source : Bernard Levin (1984). “Enthusiasms”, Random House Value Publishing

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