"I hope that young people especially will begin to have a better understanding of slavery and its effects, which are still evident today, to understand those parallels and, from there, begin ta be a part of the wave of hope to change things for the better."

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Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

#People Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“Basil..discovered a guild of abortionists, or sagae, that were doing a booming trade in Caesarea, and the surrounding environs. They provided herbal potions, pessaries, and even surgical remedies for women who wished to avoid child-bearing. The bodies of the children were then harvested and sold to cosmetologists in Egypt, who used the collagen for the manufacture of various beauty creams.”
“It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.”
“I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.”
“O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity”
“Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away”
“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.”
“I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.”
“Bill Walton is incredible. If you drop a toothpick on his foot, he'll have a stress fracture.”

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