"Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent... It is by 'black Power' that the headlines are caught, and under the shape of the negro that the consequences for Britain of immigration and what is miscalled 'race' are popularly depicted. Yet it is more truly when he looks into the eyes of Asia that the Englishman comes face to face with those who will dispute with him the possession of his native land."

Source : "Still to Decide" by Enoch Powell, Eliot Right Way Books, (p. 209), 1972.

Enoch Powell

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“A dream has power to poison sleep.”

Source : Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.192
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“Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine. Do not confuse the two. It is almost impossible to make a decent crack cocaine tassie, I am told.”

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