"The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide."

-- Susan L. Taylor

#Hero Quotes #Heart Quotes #Past Quotes

“The key thing is that I've led a life of service to country that gave me perspectives that most people don't get, having been involved in international and national decision-making and the accomplishment of national and international political and diplomatic and military objectives.”
“The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.”
“The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male breadwinner and female homemaker, married couples, and their offspring dominate the land. But its ghost, the ideology of the family, survives to haunt the consciousness of all those who refuse to confront it. It is time to perform a social autopsy on the corpse of the modern family system so that we may try to lay its troublesome spirit to rest.”

Source : Judith Stacey (1996). “In the name of the family: rethinking family values in the postmodern age”, Beacon Pr
“...You deserve to be happy. What can I do?" Don't send me away, I thought. He looked at me again. "What do you want?" "I want to taste an apple," I said. And your lips, I thought.”

Source : Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.”
“Iâ€™m not stealing it. Weâ€™re stranded. This is called borrowing.â€ â€œThis is called youâ€™re crazy.”
“If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments”
“I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW. Or maybe it'll be the kind of soon that never happens.”

Source : Kathryn Erskine (2012). “Mockingbird”, p.28, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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