"I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become."

-- Shirley Chisholm

#America Quotes

“You know, you hear about these movements for women, and for children, and for people who are any race but white, and you think that it's about time that men got a movement. Think about it. Guys can't play the piano, or dance, or sing. We can't cry, or be too happy, or show any emotion for that matter. The only thing we have left to us is anger, and even that we have to bottle up. Boys should be able to express what they feel and not have to endure people laughing at them, forcing them to wonder if they're gay or not, just because they like to paint.”
“Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football as something to kick. They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem.”

Source : Quoted in David PickeringThe Cassell Soccer Companion (1994).
“And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.”
“Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.”
“I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women.”
“There is an Eye that never sleeps, Beneath the wind of night. There is an ear that never shuts, When sinks the beams of light. There is an Arm that never tires, When human strength gives way. There is a Love that never fails, When earthly loves decay.”
“Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you.”
“Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.”

Source : N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.71, Hachette UK

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