"When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious."

-- Edna O'Brien

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“The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.”
“Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.”
“You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.”
“You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.”

Source : "Blast from my past: 'What next?' Rolling Stone". Interview with Amanda Griscom, thomaspmbarnett.squarespace.com. July 8-22, 2004.
“That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.”
“We write about what we don't know about what we know....”
“So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.”
“I think that many managers we meet do take their roles as leaders very seriously and do a lot for their people. And they try to hone their skills by reading books and attending training. But then again, the number one problem is we get busy. We tend to forget that collectively we can accomplish more than we could ever do alone, and we need our people to feel a part of a positive, productive culture.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

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