"Racial terrorism affects the lives of white people and black people and everyone, everything. Racism is contaminating. It can affect the dogs in the street. So the process of beginning to rid the country of prejudice was in itself a kind of nation-building."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Ayana Mathis

#Country Quotes #Dog Quotes #Racism Quotes

“You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.”

Source : "How Social Networks Control Your Health" by Mark Hyman, MD, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.
“Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it.”
“When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder.”
“I remember when I was very little my idol was Britney Spears. I had just come to California and that's just who I wanted to meet. So I was in a store and she walked in and my jaw just fell to the floor. I started like sweating. I could not believe that I was meeting her. She told me that I was very cute. And I lost it â€” I was so excited.”
“The Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremists.”

Source : William L. Shirer, Ron Rosenbaum (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany”, p.240, Simon and Schuster
“Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.”
“This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.”
“The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.”

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