"Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency."

-- W. E. B. Du Bois

#Honesty Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #White Quotes

“If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.”
“It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.”
“I wrote 90 percent of the record in prison. A lot of people wonder, "How the hell did you do that?" I just pretty much played drums on my legs with my hands and while I did that, I would hum the guitar parts and sing the melodies of the songs.”

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“Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.”
“A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply.”
“I just don`t want to be the little wife sitting at home. I want to do something worthwhile.”

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“Love is one of the most subtle blessings that the All-Merciful One has bestowed upon humanity.”
“I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.”

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