"I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease."

-- Ralph Abernathy

#Tired Quotes #Black And White Quotes #Giving Quotes

“You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.”
“When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever - he either finds what he is looking for or dismisses the work as irrelevant. He has deprived himself of the possibility of any fresh experience or revelation by looking only for confirmation of that which he already 'knows.”
“I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.”
“Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.”
“You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.”
“On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.”
“One thing about Germany - they'll be organised, they'll be big and they'll be strong.”
“The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.”

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