"This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto."

-- Jacob Lawrence

#Ghetto Quotes #Black Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English.”
“My kids, that's my biggest accomplishment. Being able to have talented and smart kids. They are doing something I didn't do. I didn't finish school so...that's my biggest accomplishment.”

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“At my first Masters, I got the feeling, that if I didn't play well, I wouldn't go to heaven.”
“Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds.”
“I want you to be forever strong on the field, so that you will be forever strong off the field.”
“We must stop this incessant victimhood mentality. Somebody else will not fix things. Somebody else will not make me healthy. Somebody else will not make me happy. These things are my responsibility. Not the neighborâ€™s, not the governmentâ€™s, not the church or the civic club.”
“I know who I am supposed to be with. Im just waiting until the time is right. I know what i want. I want to be so sure of everything in my life and be so good on my own that someone just comes in to compliment it. I want somebody who is happy. I dont want to meet someone who needs me. I want someone who is good on his own.”
“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.424, Vintage

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