"They were snobs or idiots or both...yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness."

-- Jennifer Egan

#Idiot Quotes #Snob Quotes #Crushed Quotes

“Lock all communication. If there's no light within my day. I'd rather stay in isolation. For that special someone a lifetime I'll wait.”
“I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus.”
“Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.”
“I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church.”
“My experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead.”

Source : Black Star News Interview, www.blackstarnews.com. February 29, 2008.
“Don't wait to have a baby! Do it now!”
“Personally I get so much of my inspiration from women in other countries, so I don't feel like American women are the leaders and I don't agree with the notion that Americans can accomplish more or do more. But I do think that what we can uniquely do here in America is mobilize and galvanize a lot of these ideas and resources. It's a war of ideas. We, Islamic women, are very well supported in this country by institutions, academic and nonprofit, that are already in the field endorsing women's rights and tolerance. The women in other communities have been the pioneers in this work.”

Source : "Will the Democrats Become Part of the Problem?". www.informationclearinghouse.info. November 9, 2006.
“Take part. Contribute. Be interested in everything and everybody.”

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