"It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight the bass. There is room here for my children to play and grow, and become good citizens-if the white man will let them...."

-- Medgar Evers

#Children Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes

“Humor is such a great gift - why leave it to chance?”
“Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.”
“I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.”

Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.212, Broadway Books
“Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.”

Source : Melvin P. Lader, Arshile Gorky, Gerald Peters Gallery (1990). “Arshile Gorky: three decades of drawings”
“Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.”
“Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.”
“The man believes the woman's got the hidden secret. That's a rare thing. You meet lots of people, and they're all deserved of love, of course, but romantic love involves some kind of supplement: she has the secret. That's what's desired.”

Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.
“I think [Pat] Buchanan is far too easily and glibly dismissed.”

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