"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."

-- Charles Horton Cooley

#Country Quotes #Hands Quotes #Class Quotes

“While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.”
“I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.”
“I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.”
“No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.”
“I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.”
“It's normal that people expect more from the French team,”
“Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.”

Source : "The Next American System". BLUEPRINT AMERICA interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.
“My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.”

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