"I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more."

-- Eric Williams

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Should Quotes

“Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.”
“[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."”
“The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.”
“I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis.”
“The government is one thing and the country of Cuba and my people are something different completely, .. It's like the United States government and your country. You don't have to agree with the policies to be proud of your country.”
“Desperate is not a sexual preference.”
“The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.”
“Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.”

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