"Desegregation is a joke."

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Nina Simone

#Brotherhood Quotes #Jokes Quotes

“Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such rites demand, if they are to be meaningful at all, a certain amount of time spent precisely on the Red Line, where you can lean over the manicured putting green at the edge of the precipice and see exactly nothing.”

Source : "Once a Runner: A Novel". Book by John L. Parker, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.
“If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you've had the best year of your life! I don't believe in all that's written.”
“By the grace of the spiritual master the cloud of the mercy of the Personality of Godhead is brought in, and then only, when the rains of Krishna consciousness fall, can the fire of material existence be extinguished.”
“After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.”
“The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.”
“When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.”
“Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.”
“Even more than in the concert hall, in church there are things you can and cannot do, just out of respect. You would never have the sound of someone being nailed to a cross, or the sound of a child being born, because everybody knows the story. We know that we're meant to feel a complicated raft of things.”

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