"You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism."

-- Stanley Crouch

#Father Quotes #People Quotes #Racism Quotes

“You can wait forever for perfect conditions or you can make do with what you have.”
“If someone is in a bad mood, tickling only makes it worse.”
“I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway.”
“We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.”
“To take all that we are and have and hand it over to God may not be easy; but it can be done; and when it is done, the world has in it one less candidate for misery.”
“Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950 and 957 models that put data in our pockets. Now we all check their email (or Twitter, or Facebook, or Instagram, or) compulsively at the dinner table, or the traffic light. Now we all stow our devices on the nightstand before bed, and check them first thing in the morning. We all do. It's not abnormal, and it's not just for business. It's just what people do. Like smoking in 1965, it's just life.”
“If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.”
“Never categorize yourself: Society does that to you, ..don't do it to yourself.”

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