"Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished."

-- Charles Bartlett Johnson

#Real Quotes #Vision Quotes #Black Quotes

“The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up by devoting ourselves to the study of the actual state of the living world, and to those monuments of the past in which the relics of the animate creation of former ages are best preserved and least mutilated by the hand of time.”

Source : Sir Charles Lyell (1863). “The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man: With Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation”, p.470
“The beet is the most intense of vegetables”
“When we realize and embrace the Lord's will for us, we will love to do it. We won't want to do anything else. It's a passion.”

Source : Franklin Graham, Ross S. Rhoads “All for Jesus: A Devotional”, Harper Collins
“He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.”
“One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because Italian people would like to have an opera singer in the family. But she's got trouble coughing, let alone singing. One day, she was in the shower singing 'Madame Butterfly,' three days later the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor.”
“There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.”
“I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.”
“I've always had great independence on everything I've done. Nobody's ever told me not to do anything.”

Source : "David Gordon Green and Emile Hirsch on Sundance and Feeling Horny". Interview with Mina Hochberg, www.vulture.com. January 22, 2013.

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