"It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States."

-- Zora Neale Hurston

#United States Quotes #Curious Quotes #Gender Quotes

“I've always had an active imagination.”
“I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.”
“When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I 'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.”
“A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
“In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.”
“Time never stops for the great ones”

Source : "BILL KING: 1927-2005 / Erudite voice of Bay Area sports" by David Bush, www.sfgate.com. October 19, 2005.
“You can't be deep without a surface”
“You've been fightin again and, you forgot why Hey kid, walk straight, master your high”

Source : Song: Hey Young World, Album: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, 1988

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