"Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve."

-- Kimberly Willis Holt

#Reading Quotes #Twelve Quotes #Paper Quotes

“I pray that you win, that you never ever pay for any of my sins”
“15, 16, I mean, 17, 18, is when I was really getting into the hip hop phase and really studying the things that I needed to study as far as learning about flows and learning about lyrics.”
“By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.”
“The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.”
“To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.”
“There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.”
“Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.”
“I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.”

Source : Gale Sayers, Al Silverman (1972). “I Am Third”

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