"Trials show us where we are and where we need to grow. Dont run from them, grow from them."

-- LeCrae

#Running Quotes #Needs Quotes #Trials Quotes

“Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to be a radical, not a conservative. I no longer cared to play that game ... The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds - social, economic, even ethnic - yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didn't buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but that did not mean we had to think alike”
“If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.”
“There are several studies done of peasant uprisings where the first chapter might be 'conditions in that area' and so the conditions are bad, and then the second chapter is a kind of conjectural event, somebody's shot and then there's an uprising. But there's no consideration, no chapter on preparation.”

Source : "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.
“Crumb,â€ he said. â€œWhat?â€ A slight grin appeared on his face and then he reached out, without the napkin, and before I knew what he was doing, he smoothed his thumb over my bottom lip. Every single muscle in my body locked up and became painfully tense. My eyes widened and the air caught in my throat. The touch was slight, barely anything, but I felt it in several parts of my body. â€œGot it.â€ His grin spread.”
“Let sleeping dogs lie â€” who wants to rouse 'em?”
“One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.”
“A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.”

Source : "The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations" by Robert Andrews, (p. 255), 1987.
“I love pushing my boundaries and seeing how far I can go without, you know, dying or injuring myself too badly.”

Source : "Q&A: Spencer Grammer on Being TV's Unlikeliest Sexy Detective". Interview with Matthew Kitchen, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2010.

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