"'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves."

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Source : FaceBook post by Sandra Cisneros from Sep 20, 2014

Sandra Cisneros

#White Quotes #Want Quotes #Accepted Quotes

“If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain-we must begin with Christ. We must go to Him as sinners, with no plea but that of utter need, and cast our souls on Him by faith. . . . If we would grow in holiness and become more sanctified, we must continually go on as we began, and be ever making fresh applications to Christ.”
“Always the same thing.”
“When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.”
“Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.”

Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”
“Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.”
“Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.”
“I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.”
“If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate.”

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