"The love of country is more powerful than reason itself."

--

Ovid

#Country Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Patriotism Quotes

“Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.”
“Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.”
“I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't, that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there.”
“Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.”
“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”
“Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.”
“If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!”

Source : The Billboard Magazine Interview, www.billboard.com. March 26, 2005.
“The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.”

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