"The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of the African slave trade, so societies like ours, that is to say the western hemisphere, the Caribbean and so forth, we share a lot in common."

-- Nell Irvin Painter

#White Quotes #Black Quotes #Hemisphere Quotes

“Show's going well. New season starting, we're on the road.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.”

Source : "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 157), 1986.
“I was very disciplined when home - lights out for the girls at 9:00, two hours of writing for me. It was murder on my marriage.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“A mature Christian is a humble Christian”
“Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by Hitler's strictly vegetarian diet.”
“The library smells like old books â€” a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a presence in the empty chair beside me. The librarian watches me suspiciously. But the library is a sacred place, and I sit with the patron saint of readers. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for one moment like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. I smell mold, I hear the clock ticking, I see an empty chair. Ask me now and I'll say this is just a place where you can't play music or eat. She's gone. The library sucks.”
“I cant save you, you have to save yourself.”
“When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.”

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