"I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted."

-- Constance Baker Motley

#Racism Quotes #Racist Quotes #Environment Quotes

“Beg, borrow, steal, Africa needs to build infrastructure.”
“No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?”
“Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”
“I was able to notice in a very early stage, there were discrepancies between the people who are writing the songs and discrepancies about the self that I was writing about. I was feeling that there were all these different people, both writing the record and having the record being written about them, even though ostensibly it was me sitting down and documenting a series of life experiences. Part of that, when I recognized this unconscious thing I was doing, was about these spaces, about these gaps.”
“I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.”
“Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.”
“Americans can live with the fact that good people sometimes give their lives for this country, but what they can't take, what they can't live with is when their government is not square with them.”

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“To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.”

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