"I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with Negro hair, where you put it, it stays. It's obedient. The hair of the white, just give one quick movement, and it's out of place. It won't obey. If reincarnation exists I want to come back black."

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Source : Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

Carolina Maria de Jesus

#Men Quotes #White Quotes #Hair Quotes

“If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.”
“Snow-capped Snowdon has been an iconic Welsh image for centuries. It is shocking to think that in just 14 years, snow on this great mountain could become nothing but a permanent and distant memory.”
“There is no unconditional love in the universe.”
“I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership.... I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches a person how to do and say the right thing at the right time. It coexists with very ordinary qualities, and yet many great geniuses are without it. Of all human qualities I consider it the most convenient--not always the highest; yet I would rather have it than many more shining qualities.”
“Sorrow can be a bully.”

Source : Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan
“Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.91, Broadview Press
“Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.”
“I don't know what the big deal about Cracker Jack is. Did you ever go buy a pack of Cracker Jack, thinking you'd get a prize and find no prize in the box? (pause) Here's the pitch...”

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