"Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass."

-- Lawrence Durrell

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“Peace the offspring is of Power.”
“I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.”
“ISIS is a formidable foe, but the counter forces to it have only just begun and if these forces, the Iraqi army, the Kurdish Peshmerga, American air power, the Syrian Free Army, work in a coordinated fashion, it will start losing ground. Also, please keep in mind that ISIS does not actually hold as much ground as the many maps flashed on television keep showing. Large parts of those territories that ISIS supposedly controls are vacant desert.”
“The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.126
“I'm just talking in my songs about what's going on, what's exactly happening right now. If I was upset about something, I wrote a song. There's nothing I can't speak on. And everything I learned is from real-life experience, all first-hand: contracts, record companies, representation, everything. It's not from books: It's coming from the the heart. You can feel my pain, you can hear me turning my pain into a party. I'm not gonna let no one take the fun out of it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The moment you're born you're done for.”
“That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.”
“Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.”

Source : "Charles Gonzalez DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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