"The love goes where it wants; you hear it rustling but you do not know where it's going and where it goes."

-- Aleksis Kivi

“I listen to everything.”
“I admire American ideas.”

Source : "Georgia Protests: HuffPost Blogger Feet On The Ground" by Jirair Ratevosian and Amy Hagopian, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2009.
“Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress.”
“Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.”
“If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi.”
“My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.”
“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”
“I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.”

Source : "Crossfire" with James Carville and Tucker Carlson, edition.cnn.com. May 3, 2004.

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