"I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go."

“Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons.”

“Discover how beautiful our country is and how wonderful our people are. Time to fall in love with the Philippines.”

“We must do all in our power to educate the public, for I believe that in the end only a change of heart is really effective.”

“What I said Wasn't wise It wasn't even true I apologise”

“But I think that Australians have a sort of independence, and I think that, rightly or wrongly, they tend to make their own decisions as to how a thing has gone. Pioneers are apt to be like that. I think that it's not a bad idea. You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.”

“We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.”

“Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.”

“Money is a great dignifier.”

Source : Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gene Andrew Jarrett, Thomas Lewis Morgan (2005). “The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.24, Ohio University Press