"Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?"

-- Raquel Cepeda

#White Quotes #America Quotes #Black Quotes

“Kids need a mom and a dad, and people understand that. Marriage between a mom and a dad is most important for kids.”
“Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? Could there be a more radical idea than that? Back in Colonial days in America, if you proposed that kind of idea, they'd burn you at the stake, you mad person! It's a mad idea!”
“I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future.”
“Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on.”
“Hades was the personification of dark and dangerous--a living, breathing Batman.”
“Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries.”
“I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.”

Source : Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”
“I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.”

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