"In America, black is a country."

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Source : Amiri Baraka (2009). “Home: Social Essays”, Akashic Books

Amiri Baraka

#Country Quotes #America Quotes #Racism Quotes

“Lighting affects everything light falls upon. How you see what you see, how you feel about it, and how you hear what you are hearing. Replace the 'a' with an 'e' and you get lighting effects!”
“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”

Source : Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
“... faithfully and strenuously you should resist the heretics in defense of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church has received - the apostles and imparted to her sons. For the Lord of all gave to His apostles the power of the Gospel, through whom also we have known the truth, that is, the doctrine of the Son of God: to whom also did the Lord declare: 'He who hears you, hears Me; and he who despises you, despises Me, and Him who sent Me' (Lk. 10:16).”
“When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.”
“Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable.”
“My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.”
“An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile.”

Source : Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.59, Macmillan

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