"I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and I think that I talk as if there are no rules. But then I run this great risk of no one understanding me at all."

-- Mirah

#Running Quotes #Song Quotes #Writing Quotes

“There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.”
“Not only are there African accomplices inside the imperialist system, but every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work for its overthrow.”

Source : "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa".
“I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.”
“They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.”
“Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.”
“Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.”
“Try again. Fall flat on your face, get up, try again. Fall on your face, get up, try again.”
“On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.”

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