"We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption."

-- Marian Wright Edelman

#Caring Quotes #Role Models Quotes #African American Quotes

“All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.”

Source : Christopher Marlowe (2000). “The Plays”, p.425, Wordsworth Editions
“My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all.”
“Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason”
“Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks”
“One classic paper compared the effects of right-to-work laws on factory jobs in neighboring counties, on either side of a right-to-work border. It found that manufacturing grew 23.1% faster between 1947 and 1992 on the anti-union side of the divide.”
“The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style”

Source : 1932 Cold Comfort Farm, foreword.
“I shall die ... as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.”
“I got a lot more interested in songs that could hold up completely on their own, with just a guitar and voice. For some people that's easy to do, but I find it's really difficult.”

Source : "Grizzly Bear". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 3, 2012.

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