"The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come."

-- Amar Bose

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Dark Quotes

“I consider the Stooges to be pop music.”
“The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.”

Source : Robert Fortune “A Residence Among The Chinese”, Lulu.com
“In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.”
“Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.”

Source : Tom Holt (2002). “The Second Tom Holt Omnibus”
“The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord.”
“I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.”
“I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!”
“When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.”

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