"How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?"

-- Constance Baker Motley

#Long Quotes #Community Quotes #Special Quotes

“One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.”
“I just wish people would realize that anything's possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try.”
“If you're going to take gambles, you must have one thing: self-confidence.”
“The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.”
“People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.”
“The strength of that heretic [Calvin] consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea.”
“Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries. Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to require recording on a daily basis. It was not for the most part a God-is-leading-me-on-a-wondrous-journey kind of meaning, but more an I've-gotta-be-me-but-nobody-cares sentimentalism that passed for meaning, and they usually stopped keeping a diary by the time they hit thirty, because by then they didn't want to ponder the meaning of life anymore because it scared the crap out of them.”
“In true rock star fashiuon, I had insomina last night and I didn't sleep at all. So all I need is a bottle of Jack Daniels and some groupies, and I'll be just like David Lee Roth.”

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