"I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner"

-- Tony Benn

#Politics Quotes #Peers Quotes #Persistent Quotes

“If you look at MMA, you don't have an amateur MMA. You have some of these young men like James Kirkland who had 140 amateur fights, I had 3. My skill level was I was just powerful as hell, I didn't know how to actually box in the beginning. I was just punching them, the skill level wasn't there. You will have one or two females that are really skillful, but who are they gonna box to get better. MMA is just more exciting because you kick and throw people on the ground and whatever. But people tuned into a fighter like me because I put people to sleep.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“I haven't ever felt I've had to divide my 'actress' life from the rest of my life.”
“Im so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldnt have dared to think I would work with one day.”
“The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.”
“Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.”

Source : "We Are At War". Speech at Cheyney State University, www.blackpast.org. 1994.
“You don't need a formal prayer or invocation to call the angels to your side. Simply think, 'Angels, please surround me,' and they are there.”
“Angels come in all sizes and shapes and colors, visible and invisible to the physical eye. But always you are changed from having seen one.”

Source : Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.52, Penguin
“The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.”

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