"King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian."

-- Constance Baker Motley

#Kings Quotes #White Quotes #Georgia Quotes

“Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant.”
“With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.”
“I'm not ashamed; I work hard to look how I do.”
“I didn't like the King's Cross world: it was grimy and dirty. I always envisioned myself in much more romantic and grand surroundings. I never really thought that I belonged to the working-class area at all.”
“The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks”
“Latinos have fought in all of Americaâ€™s wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.”
“Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.”
“Say it clearly and you make it beautiful, no matter what.”

Source : Bruce Weigl (1992). “What Saves Us”, p.68, Northwestern University Press

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