"I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there."

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Source : Randall Kennedy (2013). “For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law”, p.3, Vintage

Randall Kennedy

#School Quotes #Years Quotes #Segregation Quotes

“Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!”
“It ain't the despair that gets you, it's the hope,”

Source : Song: Big Finish, Album: Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
“I was at work but my soul wasn't there, my body was there but I wasn't connecting to what I was doing. Eventually I decided to get out of there and do something I believe in.”

Source : Source: www.highsnobiety.com
“Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps... The Dance is love, it is only love, it alone, and that is enough... I, then, it is amorously that I dance: to poems, to music but now I would like to no longer dance to anything but the rhythm of my soul.”
“I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.”
“Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.”
“If you have a ton of counterpoints, complex harmony, all these tricky things going on, it makes things less accessible to people.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“All gave some, Some gave all.”

Source : Song: Some Gave All, Album: Some Gave All, 1992

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