"All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window."

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Archie Shepp

#Window Quotes #Thrown Quotes

“God asks little, but He gives much.”
“I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.”
“Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it out for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves.”
“Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.”
“A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.”
“This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.”
“They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.”
“When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.”

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