"In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies of our black children,"

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Source : Harry Belafonte’s Speech Accepting NAACP Spingarn Medal, www.democracynow.org. February 18, 2013.

Harry Belafonte

#Children Quotes #Gun Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.”
“I knew I really didn’t look that good, and that Edward Weston had glorified me, but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn’t wait to go back for more.”

Source : Edward Weston, Charis Wilson (1993). “Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters”
“In the office, Michael sat behind our fatherâ€™s desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with his left. Ambidextrous freak.”
“God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.”
“We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.”
“I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach”
“Follow the fellow who follows a dream.”
“Who know what life is going to be like. I mean, there was no demand for the spaces before. It's not like people were flocking to Sochi before; they just didn't have enough hotel rooms and arenas to fill the need. So that's what we'll look at when we go there. But we'll wait a few years until things kind of return to normal.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com

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