"There could be joy in destruction, too, couldn't there? Isn't Jesus Christ's Second Coming supposed to occur only after a lot of unmitigated destruction? But again, human history is fraught with tragedies in which man spared no effort to destroy with millenarian joy, only to learn that no messiah appeared afterwards."

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Source : Kenzaburo Oe (1998). “A Quiet Life”, p.96, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Kenzaburo Oe

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“I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African American. It wouldn't occur to me to use that. I prefer to think of myself as an American, that's all!”

Source : Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.75, Kodansha America
“Nothing risque, nothing gained.”
“That said, I can't emphasise enough - and I hope you print this - that I absolutely don't judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers.”
“Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.”
“A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.”

Source : Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)
“Relieve stress through hysterical screaming.”
“The word of God is our only standard, and the Holy Spirit our only teacher.”
“Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.”

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