"This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another."

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Source : Ishmael Beah (2014). “Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel”, p.18, Macmillan

Ishmael Beah

#Pain Quotes #Awakening Quotes #Be Careful Quotes

“I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.”
“If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.”
“speaking with, uh, about the vocal choreography, one of the first groups that I worked with was a group called the Cadillacs, which was uh, an exceptionally talented group. They all moved well and they sort of established Cholly Atkins's style. In other words they basically put me on the map, and everybody would look at them and see their choreography and they wanted to know who did it, so they would tell them.”
“There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.”
“I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem.”
“It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral;”

Source : Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.13, Vintage
“Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.”
“I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.”

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