"You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots."

-- Mike Colter

#Roots Quotes #Southern Quotes #Soul Quotes

“By God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own modesty.”

Source : Quoted in G. R. Gleig, The Life of Robert, First Lord Clive (1848)
“There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.”
“The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and the flooded cypress.”
“Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple societies, one is astonished by how such a notion can continue to be taught to students.”

Source : "The Emotional Life of Nations". Book by Lloyd deMause, 2002.
“Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for knowledge. And the answers he received to the questions, "Where do I come from?", "What is man?", although they made him poorer by a few illusions, gave him in compensation a knowledge of his past that is vaster than he could ever have dreamed. For it emerged that the history of life was his history too...”
“We never repent of having eaten too little.”
“Every woman has a different metabolism and different genetics, so rather than compete with one another, concentrate on yourself and be the best you can be.”

Source : "Alessandra Ambrosio's Stay-Healthy Secrets" by Erin Bried, www.self.com. May 19, 2014.
“Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.”

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