"I want to hear the chanting Around a heathen fire Of a strange black race."

-- Gwendolyn B. Bennett

#Fire Quotes #Race Quotes #Singing Quotes

“I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.”
“Jake leaned on the horn, swearing loudly. Gina covered her eyes. Doc flung his arms around me, burying his face in my lap, and Dopey, to my great surprise, began to scream like a girl, very close to my ear....”
“At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.”
“Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.”
“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.”
“My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.”

Source : "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists". Book by Katharine Kuh, p. 128, 1962.
“I have to tell you that it's not going to be easy. Take every chance and every opportunity that you can. Don't say 'I can't' or 'I shouldn't' or 'I'm too tired.'”

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