"My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right."

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Derrick Bell

#White Quotes #Wife Quotes #Trying Quotes

“It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.”

Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.10, Pan Macmillan
“There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.”

Source : "Building civilisation". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2006.
“I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.”
“I refuse to believe that the processed beauty that I see around me is what I have to be.”
“If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.”
“To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.”
“Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.”
“There are different rules for comic books now. You've got prima donna's that are dealing with the direct sales market, so if they say it's going to be late, then that's what you tell the dealers and it's late.”

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