"But he is an Italian," was Umberto's sensible reply. "He doesn't care if you break some law a little bit, as long as you wear beautiful shoes. Are you wearing beautiful shoes? Are you wearing the shoes I gave you?...principessa?" I looked down at my flip-flops. "I guess I'm toast."

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Source : Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.32, Ballantine Books

Anne Fortier

#Beautiful Quotes #Italian Quotes #Law Quotes

“I was one of those kids that was always picked on but, one thing I gotta say it that no matter how bad your life gets, there's always a bright light out there and you gotta find it.”
“People thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just came more into the light.”
“The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.”

Source : "Ashes and Snow: A Novel in Letters". Book by Gregory Colbert, 2005.
“This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens”
“By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.”
“If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.”
“Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.”
“I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. I'm asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.”

Source : "Facing the Truth: The Case for Reparations". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 21, 2014.

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