"I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator."

-- Terry McMillan

#White Quotes #Black Quotes #Judgment Quotes

“There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.”
“I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do].”
“Look it, let me put it to you this way. The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”
“From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone elseâ€™s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone elseâ€™s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.”

Source : Sebastian Faulks (2010). “Girl At The Lion d'Or”, p.83, Random House
“There is nothing original; all is reflected light.”
“I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. Its an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing.”
“Mars is not an aesthetic God.”

Source : John Brown Gordon (1904). “Reminiscences of the Civil War”
“Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals.”

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