"What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?"

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Source : Jonathan Lethem (2004). “The Fortress of Solitude”, p.490, Vintage

Jonathan Lethem

#Boys Quotes #Scary Quotes #Black Quotes

“Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a primal duality breaks the humanity I know into two distinct parts; that this duality is a fundamental, and that all differences among you gentiles are trivialities compared with that which divided all of you from us.”
“I see no constitutional problems with the identification, staving off and defusing of outside threats.”
“I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.”

Source : Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”
“It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.”
“We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.”

Source : The Atlantic Community Quarterly, Volume 14-15, p. 200, 1976-1978.
“There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.”

Source : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1855). “Beaumont and Fletcher: or, The finest scenes, lyrics, and other beauties of those two poets, now first selected from the whole of their works, to the exclusion of whatever is morally objectionable: with opinions of distinguished critics, notes explanatory and otherwise, and a general introductory preface”, p.207
“Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue.”
“Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy.”

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