"Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world."

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Source : "Annie, Between the States". Book by L. M. Elliott, March 31, 2009.

Laura Elliott

#Music Quotes #Play Quotes #Our World Quotes

“As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.”
“Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.”
“But how do you wait for heaven And who has that much time And how do you keep your feet on the ground When you know, that you were born, you were born to fly”

Source : Song: Born to Fly, Album: Stronger, 2000
“It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring. [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]”
“All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.”
“Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.”
“Jim Jones started out as a civil rights crusader in Indianapolis. As a young preacher in the mid-50s, he used members of his congregation to integrate lunch counters and all-white churches in rich neighborhoods; they'd just march in and sit down at the pews and see what happened. Often they were received with racist insults, and once with a bomb threat. But the fact that you had this charismatic, white man, aggressively promoting racial equality, was a huge draw for African Americans, many of whom felt the Civil Rights Movement had stalled by the late 60s.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples,”

Source : "First openly gay bishop Gene Robinson announces divorce from husband" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2014.

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