"In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot."

-- Peter Blair Henry

#Jamaica Quotes #People Quotes #Far Away Quotes

“Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.”
“Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people room for dissent.”
“Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.”

Source : Jacqueline Woodson (2014). “Brown Girl Dreaming”, p.241, Penguin
“Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.”
“Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.”
“She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.”
“The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.”

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