"To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths."

-- Fred D'Aguiar

#Hands Quotes #People Quotes #Utterance Quotes

“There's been so many, I think [Lucas Goodman and I] share this, but for us, Afropunk was a really big moment just because it was in New York.”
“Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of gender distinctions in society.”
“I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.”
“I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back”

Source : Anya Seton (2013). “Katherine”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise.”
“Since every school in India teaches English, why can't it be our link language? Why do Tamils have to study English for communication with the world and Hindi for communications within India? Do we need a big door for the big dog and a small door for the small dog? I say, let the small dog use the big door too!”
“You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.”
“What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.”

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