"If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair. Make a song for death, a song for yellow teeth and bad breath"

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Joy Harjo

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“During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women [chapter] in New York City, the most resistant audiences I ever faced in the process of doing corporate workshops on equality in the workplace were not male executives they were the wives of male executives. As long as her income came from her husband, she was not feeling generous when affirmative action let another woman have a head start vying for her husband's (her) income.”
“The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.”

Source : Constitutional Convention, May 31, 1787.
“When people get hungry and desperate, things get ugly. And I'll tell you where it's really going to get ugly: crime is going to go to levels we've never seen before.”
“If your business isnâ€™t optimised for mobile, it might as well be invisible. Mobile isnâ€™t going to be a medium. Itâ€™s going to be the medium.”
“Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.”

Source : Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.382, Simon and Schuster
“The most wonderful inspirational chemistry we can use on another is the gift of our love and acceptance. Devoted and unquestioned love has a magic creative power. The consciousness of being loved is an uplifting, saving, healing force that causes one to go on when otherwise it would be impossible to do so. "Love," said Emerson, "is the affirmative of affirmatives."”
“Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.”
“I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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