"To be young, gifted and black!"

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Source : Song: To Be Young, Gifted And Black, Album: Black Swan

Nina Simone

#Black Quotes #Young Quotes #Gifted Quotes

“I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I donâ€™t want more things. If I want other stuff - movies, TV shows, weather forecasts, the forthcoming Josh Ritter album - I have my Mac.”
“When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled...It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase.”
“It was not easy when I was a teenager. But today, with the new technology, with the Internet, everybody can do prostitution with two clicks. During the period of Belle du Jour, it was a very strong decision to go into the profession, but now, if you need a little bit money, you go on a website and you say, "Can I have 50 dollars?" It's easy! I wanted to show these facilities.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.”
“I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.”
“The idea of submission is never meant to allow someone to overstep another's boundaries. Submission only has meaning in the context of boundaries, for boundaries promote self-control and freedom. If a wife is not free and in control of herself, she is not submitting anyway. She is a slave subject to a slave driver, and she is out of the will of God.”
“I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.”
“Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.”

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