"Claudia Rankine'sÂ CitizenÂ comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth.Â CitizenÂ is Rankine'sÂ Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it."

-- Hilton Als

#Beautiful Quotes #Country Quotes #Song Quotes

“I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“On the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government: I think it should be made clear that the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, they have not got into bed together; they are merely sharing a room.”

Source : The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, September 24, 2010.
“The thing about death is that it's embarrassing. No one wants to focus on it for very long. We're happy to talk about sex all day long but no one wants to talk about the moment where it all ends.”
“Stop trying to be someone you're not. Be what you're good at, be you.”
“Disease is a dynamic process. It has a beginning - slow or sudden - develops, reaches in many cases an acme, and ends in recovery or death.”

Source : Civilisation and Disease p. 196. Phoenix Books, New York (1962)
“Don't give up the search for happiness because you're afraid of getting hurt.”
“A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.”

Source : Francis Henry Taylor (1958). “The Archaic Smile: The Relation of Art and the Dignity of Man”
“There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip.”

Source : "Why I pulled out of the TS Eliot poetry prize" by Alice Oswald, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.

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