"My family were from Jamaica."

-- Diane Abbott

#Jamaica Quotes #My Family Quotes

“My longest love affair: with a book.”
“It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.”
“That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.”
“It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.”
“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.”
“There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.”
“Yet it is trueâ€”skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosityâ€”like a talking pig or a mathematical horse.”
“You never stand beside the same river twice; you have to keep looking upstream.”

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