"It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context."

-- Christopher Darden

#Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth.”

Source : "Exclusive! Paula Jones Talks with Sean & Alan". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. March 10, 2005.
“We lost a young man’s life and it begins to represent so many things.”

Source : "Loretta Lynch Promises Police Reform In Baltimore". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 5, 2015.
“One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.”
“A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.”

Source : 1959 In the NewYork Times, 24May.
“Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.”
“Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.”
“When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context.”
“[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler].... It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.”

Source : "Argument Against the Writs of Assistance". "Argument Against the Writs of Assistance" by James Otis Jr., 1761.

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