"The future is always here in the past"

-- Amiri Baraka

“And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.”
“America is a country ready to be taken-in fact, longing to be taken-by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.”
“I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!”

Source : "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End". Album by Vivian Stanshall, 1978.
“Im an ambassador for Medical Detection dogs.”
“The way I see it you can never learn enough about the Bible. You can never learn all the answers. I love the way the instructors present it and break it down to you. It's helped me greatly in preaching the gospel.”
“Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.”
“Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves.”

Source : CHARLES HODGE (1873). “SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY.”, p.48
“Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.”

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