"I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my wife again so I could have my own place and not have no landladies."

-- Langston Hughes

#Women Quotes #Wife Quotes #Wish Quotes

“In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.”
“The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.”

Source : Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2009). “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.21, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography and politics of the Middle East. But if Israel is to obtain this recognition, she must, in a settlement, put an end to the territorial occupation which she has maintained since the war of 1967; the nine members of the European Community have declared that this is an essential element in a settlement. On behalf of the British Government I underline that need today.”

Source : Speech to the UN General Assembly, October 5, 1976.
“it's a kiss full of promise, of trust and of all that is magic.”
“A peep, peep, peep, another peep, and that's it.”
“Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.”
“Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.”
“Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.”

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