"The English language is nobody's special property."

-- Derek Walcott

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“Praise is declaration, a victory cry, proclaiming faith to stand firm in the place God has given you. Praise is a proclamation that the enemy's intent to plunder you will not rock you. Praise declares that you will not be moved by the enemy's attempt to snatch you away.”
“I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.”
“I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.”
“Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I like to mix things up.”
“Stand-up is not something that you're good at right away. You have to do it a ton. But, I think I got to shave a year off because I didn't have to get over stage fright.”
“A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.”
“I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.”

Source : "Cain took campaign on wild ride through Wisconsin" by Craig Gilbert, archive.jsonline.com. November 15, 2011.
“The crooning turns to a sunrise singing.”

Source : Vachel Lindsay, Dennis Camp (1984). “The poetry of Vachel Lindsay: complete & with Lindsay's drawings”, Spoon River Poetry Pr

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