"The American Dream has really good PR. It's kind of difficult to live in the United States and not on some level be pulled into the allure of the American Dream. It's in the DNA of the country. So, for a population coming out of slavery, desperate to become part of the full life of the United States, it only makes sense that they would embrace this route to the American Dream."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Anthony B Pinn

#Dream Quotes #Country Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.”
“Decisions, they shape our destiny.”

Source : Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.20, Penguin
“Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.”
“I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.”
“When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.”
“Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.”
“To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.”
“Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.”

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