"My genius from a boy Has fluttered like a bird within my heart; But could not thus confined her power employ, Impatient to depart."

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Source : George Moses Horton (1997). “The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry”, p.121, Univ of North Carolina Press

George Moses Horton

#Heart Quotes #Boys Quotes #Bird Quotes

“When it comes to love, always be open. Because the second youre not pining after a boy, or a boyfriend, amazing love comes into your life.”
“The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.”
“Fans aren't just fans... they're part of my family.”
“Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.”
“The older I get, the more I accept and appreciate myself.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take them with utter sober seriousness, the utter sober seriousness of right-wing parsons and political saviors, the owners of Pomeranians, are the liars who want to be believed, the novelists and poets, who know that the creatures they imagine have no other being than the sounding syllables which the reader will speak into his own weary and distracted head. There are no magic words. To say the words is magical enough.”
“What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?”
“The purpose of autonomous driving is to eliminate accidents.”

Source : "Real Wheels Live". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 27, 2015.

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