"...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise"

-- E. Lockhart

#White Quotes #People Quotes #Tree Quotes

“I've often tried to describe how memory works. I've suggested this to students, and told them to close their eyes and try to remember what I look like. Then I ask them if they remember what I look like. But when you open your eyes you will be surprised how different what you thought I looked like is to what I actually look like. Because the imagination is a different raw material from actual vision. Memory is very different from the thing itself.”
“I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.”
“I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it”

Source : Song: Work It, Album: Under Construction
“I just want to give people something to dance to, and something to cry to, and laugh to and fall in love to.”
“This is something I think that blues music, or folk music, and all those particular genres that have a perspective about life deal with - where the difficulties of life are seen as something that are very natural and nothing to be embarrassed about, and something that we all go through; something that's part of our share of humanity. And it accepts those difficulties and pain as such. I think there's a wonderful forgiveness that can come over you, if you have that perspective on it.”
“The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.”
“What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.”

Source : Bernard Malamud (2004). “The Fixer: A Novel”, p.333, Macmillan
“A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.”

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