"Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze of Benin."

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Source : Dudley Randall (2009). “Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall”, p.185, Wayne State University Press

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“Nothing feels sexier than wearing the beautiful truth.”
“My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud his brow. On the very night of his death he took me in his arms, and during the many months when he lay dying in his wheel chair, he often said jokingly to me: 'Well, have you already picked out a lover?' I blushed with shame. 'Don't deceive me,' he added on one occasion, 'that would seem ugly to me, but pick out an attractive lover, or preferably several. You are a splendid woman, but still half a child, and you need toys.”

Source : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.31, Cosimo Classics
“We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.”
“When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.”
“Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths?”
“The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion.”
“My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.”

Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
“I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.”

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