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“As it turned out, Welcome was where I lost everything, and gained everything. Welcome was the place where my life was guided from one track to another, ending me to places I'd never thought of going.”
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“You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.”
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“It is a dangerous time to be a black woman in America. It’s a time when we are not safe in the streets or at home or at school or at work and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it. Nobody. Not us. Not our mommas. Not the police. Not the people we elected to look out for our interests. Nobody. We’re just out here. (p.53)”
Source : Pearl Cleage (1993). “Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot”
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“I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.”
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“The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.”
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“When we try to describe one person to another …, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what he wore, only occasionally how he managed his job—no, what we tell is what he said and, if we are good mimics, how he said it. We apparently consider a person's spoken words the true essence of his being.”
Source : Cleanth Brooks (2007). “The Language of the American South”, p.33, University of Georgia Press
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“Life is with such all beer and skittles. They are not difficult to please About their victuals.”
Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.59
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“On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.”
