"your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you."

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Source : Alice Childress (2012). “Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life”, p.77, Beacon Press

Alice Childress

#Soul Quotes #Your Soul Quotes

“Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.”
“It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.”

Source : New York Times Book Review, February 14, 1993.
“We face neither East nor West: we face forward.”

Source : Kwame Nkrumah (1972*). “Selected Speeches of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah: First President of the Republic of Ghana”
“While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.”
“Family is a difficult matter. I must admit I do not know that the state can intervene successfully in a family. It's a fact that everything is connected with the individualist temperament, the kind of economic environment which stresses the individual, but this is not directly the result of a state policy, nor do I see any good way by which the state could intervene except in some marginal ways.”

Source : Source: www.minneapolisfed.org
“The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.”

Source : "Sir Humphrey Reveals His Dusty Springfield Side" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.
“The Bible and studying the Bible has been an important part of my life.”
“Love is not love until love's vulnerable.”

Source : Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.177, Anchor

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