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“I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.”
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“To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and fish, to mention the most common, were not eaten they would not be killed.”
Source : Philip Kapleau (1982). “To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian”, Harper San Francisco
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“Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.”
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“After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.”
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“I recollect a nurse called Ann, Who carried me about the grass, And one fine day a fine young man Came up and kissed the pretty lass. She did not make the least objection. Thinks I, "Aha, When I can talk I'll tell Mama," And that's my earliest recollection.”
Source : Frederick Locker-Lampson, “A Terrible Infant”
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“Women must destroy in themselves, the desire to be loved-”
Source : Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.155, Macmillan
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“By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.”
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“That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.”
