"In terms of addressing some of the most impacted communities and historically excluded communities - often of color, often low income - there is this adage in specifically African American communities that on every corner in low income neighborhoods you'll find a liquor store."

-- Bryant Terry

#Community Quotes #African American Quotes #Liquor Quotes

“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”

Source : The Souls of Black Folk ch. 1 (1903)
“When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.”
“I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.”
“War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.”
“I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.”

Source : "Aristide bid to win over Haiti critics" by Owen Bowcott, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2000.
“This is not a legitimate congressional exercise. This is not a fact-finding hearing. This is theater. This is a charade. This is stage craft. This is nothing more than a political hit job on a women`s right to choose. Which, by the way, is constitutionally protected.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.' 'Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,' said Bessie. 'Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too - and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well!”
“As with many metaphysical and religious questions, Kant thinks they lie beyond our power to answer them. If you can't stand the frustration involved in accepting this, and insist on finding some more stable position which affords you peace of mind and intellectual self-complacency, then you will find Kant's position "problematic" in the sense that you can't bring yourself to accept it. You may try to kid yourself into accepting either some naturalistic deflationary answer to the problem or some dishonest supernaturalist answer.”

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