"Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?"

-- Marc Chagall

#Littles Quotes #Sweetness Quotes

“Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.”
“You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.”
“History is a record of exploded ideas.”
“Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not . . . â€â€”Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clearâ€”â€œ. . . when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.”
“There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
“The object is to keep busy being something...as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness and more love into this world. That is too big a job to be accomplished by just a few.”
“By genocide we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group.”

Source : Axis Rule in Occupied Europe preface (1944).
“Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.”

Source : Thomas M. Disch (2000). “The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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