"Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody. You included."

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Source : Bernice L. McFadden (2001). “Sugar: A Novel”, p.39, Penguin

Bernice L. McFadden

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“That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important things like how to invade his trailer.”

Source : Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.49, Penguin
“But jest apart--what virtue canst thou trace In that broad trim that hides thy sober face? Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice And formal clothing, prove a scorn of vice? Then for thine accent--what in sound can be So void of grace as dull monotony?”
“You can see all kinds of matchups within those teams, but I think it's going to come down to who plays best as a team and is patient.”
“My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.”
“That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time”
“I think the future for young chefs is much brighter than it was 40 years ago. Because people have become so much more interested in food. That will not stop. We cannot go back now. We cannot go back to frozen.”

Source : "In Conversation: André Soltner and David Chang". Interview with Robin Raisfeld, Rob Patronite, nymag.com. September 28, 2008.
“A moment of silence is not inherently religious.”
“Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.”

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