"Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity."

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Source : "I just wanted to kill" by Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2008.

Emmanuel Jal

#Gun Quotes #Knives Quotes #Insecurity Quotes

“Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.”

Source : "Stacy London Tells You Why Clothes Can Change The Way You Feel About Yourself". Interview with Holly Corbett, www.sfgate.com. March 12, 2013.
“I'm not the same as other people. I don't think the same. I don't do the same things. I just feel out of this world sometimes.”
“On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.”
“The result was the same as tuning down the strings by a semitone and using a capo at the first fret. With less tension in the strings, the sound was more mellow and softer; it also allowed me to cover a larger span of the fingerboard. I used this for quite a few years, but eventually I went back to the standard fingerboard.”
“We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.”
“On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.”
“I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.”
“Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind.”

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