"You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation."

#People Quotes #Black Quotes #Complaining Quotes

“Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.”
“Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!”

Source : Hippolyte Taine (1876). “The Modern Régime”
“The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.”
“I think that today, more so than ever, corporate responsibility is the best strategic as well as financial path that most businesses can follow. For most businesses there are both compelling reasons to be responsible and compelling statistics that validate that responsible businesses do better according to traditional financial metrics. Of course, how you define "responsible" is somewhat of a conundrum.”
“Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.”
“Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing.”
“In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.”
“I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.”

Source : Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan

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