"I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple."

-- Samuel L. Jackson

#Simple Quotes #People Quotes #Black Quotes

“Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.51, Random House
“I'm asking Muslims in the West a very basic question: Will we remain spiritually infantile, caving to cultural pressures to clam up and conform, or will we mature into full-fledged citizens, defending the very pluralism that allows us to be in this part of the world in the first place? My question for non-Muslims is equally basic: Will you succumb to the intimidation of being called "racists," or will you finally challenge us Muslims to take responsibility for our role in what ails Islam?”

Source : "Irshad Manji: The Trouble with Islam Today". www.pbs.org. August 18, 2006.
“It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.”
“The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. But The right mental attitude for example gratitude that things are not worse, the trained mind the right habits of thought - lifeskills, will bring to us the best there is in the universe.”
“Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.”
“Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.”
“I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.”
“Godâ€™s Word, when rightly expounded, is medicinal for a whole host of spiritual diseases.”

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