"Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value. [If] a black is a tyrant, he is first and foremost a tyrant, then he incidentally is black. Bush is a tyrant and if he gathers around him black tyrants, they all have to be treated as they are being treated."

-- Harry Belafonte

#Color Quotes #Tyrants Quotes #Black Quotes

“I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed”

Source : Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Delphi Complete Novels of Algernon Blackwood (Illustrated)”, p.2910, Delphi Classics
“You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad.”
“Ole Anderson! Layin' down could not take me out with a steel toed boot! Could not put me away with a steel toed boot! And I'm gonna say it right now and get it through your head... BOTH OF YA (Ole Anderson and Ivan Koloff) THIS THANG WILL NEVER BE OVAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”
“Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.”

Source : E. F. Benson (2014). “Delphi Works of E. F. Benson with the Complete Mapp and Lucia Novels (Illustrated)”, p.6990, Delphi Classics
“I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.”
“I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual”
“He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he's so formal he can't do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can't use half of them.”
“Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.”

Source : "The agony and the ecstasy" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2002.

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