"We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers."

-- Angela Davis

#Daughter Quotes #Kings Quotes #Queens Quotes

“The great thing about basketball is it's a live ball. If someone's in your way, push them out of the way, go around them or over them, whatever it takes.”

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“Sometimes you tell the truth like you're pulling taffy.”

Source : Song: Taffy, Album: Tails
“Observation capitalizes inspiration.”

Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”, New York
“My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.”
“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.”
“The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.”
“It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.”
“Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.”

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