"I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that."

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Source : Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

Dick Gregory

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“I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.”
“The King saw them with no common satisfaction, expressing his desire in no particular to have yt Stellar fish engraven and printed. We wish very much, Sir, yt you could procure for us a particular description of yesd Fish, viz. whether it be common there; what is observable in it when alive; what colour it then hath; what kind of motion in the water; what use it maketh of all that curious workmanship, wch Nature hath adorn'd it with?”
“The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders.”
“Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.”
“Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.”

Source : Gyles Brandreth (2008). “Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder: A Mystery”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.”
“Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shapeâ€”and words help to define those thoughts. Thatâ€™s why wizards usually use words to help them with their spells. Words provide a sort of insulation as the energy of magic burns through a spell casterâ€™s mind.”
“Man is the same today that he has always been. He is a rebel against God. He may, in some generations, hide his rebellion a little more carefully than at other times, but there is no change in his heart. The men who builded the city against God back in the days of Babylon had the same hatred as that which possessed the men who nailed the Lord Jesus Christ to the cross.”

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