"All eager-lipped I kissed the mouth of Death."

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Source : Gwendolyn Bennett, “Sonnet 1”

Gwendolyn B. Bennett

#Death Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“Apartheid isn't that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal.”

Source : "So NRA Board Member Ted Nugent Spews a Little Hate at Texas Inaugural Festivities: What Next, Dog Bites Man?" by Josh Sugarmann, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2007.
“Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.”
“At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous plants, giant serpents, hostile centaurs, that sort of thing, purely routine --and I was beginning to get bored when at last the dusky towers of Castle Roogna hove into view.”
“Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are.”
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
“So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk envolved in choosing the profesiÃ³n. It is a fact of life that writers have always and with due consideration and great pleasure spit in the soup of the high and mighty. That is what makes the history of literature analogous to the development and refinement of censorship.”
“I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.”
“To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.”

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