"It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good."

--

Harold Prince

#Class Quotes #Guy Quotes #Intelligence Quotes

“After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.”
“Desperation can make a person do surprising things.”
“Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.”
“I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns”
“I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority”
“When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.”

Source : H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) (2002). “Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin”, p.7, Chicago Review Press
“Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge...”
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”

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