"The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture."

-- James Fenton

#Dark Quotes #Long Quotes #Racism Quotes

“I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.”
“My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes. Except me. I did not defer and was disciplined accordingly.”
“Michael Jackson really turns my life and changed my creative process as well. "Keep On Loving You" really honors him and honors my relationship with him so much so that the family, the estate and Sony Music gave me permission to use footage from our time on tour together in my new video. I am just so, so honored that they sought to do that because they didn't have to do that at all. It's a brilliant gesture because they realized how much he meant to me. When you hear the song and watch the video, you'll get that too.”
“I wanted to be rid of him," he says. He raises my chin with his thumb. "But not if it meant being rid of you. I climbed in beside you, and you put your head in my lap. You can't think I would have left you like that." "Look what it got you," I say. "Tea in bed and you here in front of me," he says. "It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.”
“I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in.”
“I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the slide and fretting notes and chords conventionally without having to relearn the fretboard, as one must do when playing in an open tuning.”
“In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.”
“It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.”

Source : Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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