"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."

-- Constance Baker Motley

#Common Quotes #Single Relationship Quotes #This Society Quotes

“When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
“There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy.”
“The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience. Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor.”
“[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.”
“Now is the time to become a myth.”
“We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.”

Source : "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression". Office of the United States Chief of Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality publication, Volume 6, p. 3,
“Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of the streets and the sounds of nature, and make us see once again that they are parts of the same song. She celebrates American lives as they are lived today: the mother scrubbing her kitchen floor at midnight, the drag-queens in the Tenderloin, the homeless woman knitting in the courtyard. This is poetry that relentlessly shows us the beauty in the world, with all its struggles and complexity, and demands that we go out to meet it with open hearts.”
“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”

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