"The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished"

-- Constance Baker Motley

#Racism Quotes #Facts Quotes

“The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.”

Source : "Black Like Him: Obama's Narrow Path to Reelection" by Charles P. Pierse, www.esquire.com. July 23, 2015.
“My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine how strange that must have been: like James Earl Jones speaking through a sock puppet.”

Source : "The Infectious Benjamin Percy". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.
“It was all I lived for, to play baseball.”
“Love is love, whether it goes on two legs or four.”

Source : Gwen Cooper (2013). “Love Saves the Day: A Novel”, p.260, Bantam
“Sometimes it's very hard to turn off my brain especially when I have an eighteen hour day. I try to stop working by 10 or 11pm but you know sometimes there is nothing I can do about it.”
“The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment.”
“The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.”

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