"Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis. ... Maybe one day whites and blacks can be real friends, but right now the country ain't built that way."

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Source : Mildred D. Taylor (2004). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.115, Penguin

Mildred D. Taylor

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“The glut of information that is spayed at us on a daily basis is an important factor in the formation of our ideologies, and it's not even actually happening in front of us.”

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“I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.”
“I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you canâ€™t get here?' Almost. Freedom, Gabriel. Thatâ€™s what you canâ€™t get here.”
“Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.”
“If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.”
“All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.”
“We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold.”
“You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.”

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