"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets."

-- Barack Obama

#Friends Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Feminist Quotes

“When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.”
“... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.”
“Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.”
“I am very proud of my husband, both behind the camera and in front of the camera.”
“You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.”
“It's tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.”
“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
“Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears to me to be little more than a shadow without the substance . . . .”

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