"It's important for the progressive youth to remember that the agenda you set today is the agenda that will matter tomorrow. If you are engaged and active, it means you are one of the lucky ones and you are awake. Most people are not there yet."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Darryl Pinckney

#Mean Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.”
“It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.”
“Over the last six months, I've seen what these two futures look like. And six months from now, we'll all be living in one, or the other. But only one. A country where our president either has our back or turns his back; a country that honors our foremothers by moving us forward, or one that forces our generation to re-fight the battles they already won; a country where we mean it when we talk about personal freedom, or one where that freedom doesn't apply to our bodies and our voices.”

Source : Sandra Fluke's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.
“This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.”
“I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.”
“Every time I improvise I'm aware that I could be ruining what it is that we're doing and we'll just have to do it again.”
“Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.”
“We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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