"Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die before us all, a people who were the heart of our country and lifeblood of our culture. After rising water, winds and abandonment, after our failure and neglect, comes this symphony of utterance from the ruins: many-voiced, poignant, sorrowful and fierce. This is poetry taking the full measure of its task."

-- Carolyn Forche

#Country Quotes #Heart Quotes #Blood Quotes

“All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or less readily assimilated...”
“This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.”
“If you can get the audience to talk to the screen, I just thought that was so cool, and I wanted to do that. And I just leaned towards the scary and the thriller. I find it very emotional. I want to make emotional horror. If I can make you cry, than you have a full experience.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Don't go to college, unless to get knowledge.”
“Professional football is a job and it's in the entertainment business.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them.”

Source : Francis Lieber (1853). “On Civil Liberty and Self-government”, p.366
“The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.”
“Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.”

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