"In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near east like Turks or Muslims or North Africans, all of whom might well be considered white in the United States."

-- Nell Irvin Painter

#Ideas Quotes #White Quotes #People Quotes

“Creative" "Dangerously emo.”
“Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made”
“What we're all sort of trying to do in our lives is to make the simplest things work out the best.”
“Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and frowns of fate Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd.”
“I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.”
“Meditation is the process of quieting one's mind, and letting go of the worries and stress of life.”
“One ironic thing is that although (the Soviet Union) was one of the most oppressive systems, with no respect for the individual, it somehow produced the freest hockey on the planet. These guys, when they got on the ice, it was like watching jazz. They could do anything. I find that a paradox. It's interesting because I think the North American style was a lot less free. It was not encouraged to be creative.”
“Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.”

Source : "The News Quiz", BBC Radio 4, November 2008.

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