"A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up."

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Source : Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

Murray Kempton

#Beats Quotes #Neighborhood Quotes

“I can say, particularly as a mother of four small children. I can talk about the coarsening of our culture.”
“When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.”
“I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.”

Source : Anne Rivers Siddons (1994). “Downtown”, G K Hall & Company
“I'm a common-sense kind of guy.”
“Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.”
“She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.”

Source : Diane Duane (2003). “So You Want to Be a Wizard”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Some people wonder why they can't have faith for healing. They feed their body three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week.”

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