"It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job."

-- Langston Hughes

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“Boko Haram will soon know the strength of our collective will”

Source : "Nigerian election winner vows to crush Boko Haram insurgency" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2015.
“Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61.”
“The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.”
“So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it's only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.”
“Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.”
“Straight people have it so much easier. They donâ€™t understand. They canâ€™t. Thereâ€™s no such thing as openly straight.”

Source : Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.207, Scholastic Inc.
“I try to do romantic gestures all the time. For instance, this morning I work up early -- earlier than I would have normally liked to have woken up. Elizabeth [Chambers] was still asleep, so I just laid in bed and cuddled with her for an hour. I just ran my hands over her body. It was nice.”
“There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.”

Source : "POLITICO interviews Piers Morgan". Interview with Dylan Byers, www.politico.com. January 17, 2013.

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