"Drugs is a government game, Bilal. A way to rob us of our best black men, our army. Everyone who plays the game loses. Then they get you right back where we started, in slavery! Then they get to say "This time you did it to yourself." I won't play that game."

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Source : Sister Souljah (2004). “The Coldest Winter Ever”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

Sister Souljah

#Army Quotes #Men Quotes #Games Quotes

“If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don't need control. They know what needs to be done and they do it. And the more that people will devote themselves to your cause on a voluntary basis, a willing basis, the fewer hierarchies and control mechanisms you need.”
“Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.”
“I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.”
“The greatest enemy to love is your pride”
“I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the barren canyon walls. And the mute desert seemed to carry on our conversation for us.”
“Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.”

Source : Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
“The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.”

Source : Ilsa J. Bick (2011). “Draw the Dark”, p.317, Carolrhoda Lab
“Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Miloâ€™s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to feel, after we have finished and fallen in love with the book, like the workings of a secret purpose. Of all the enchantments of beloved books the most mysterious-the most phantasmal-is the way they always seem to come our way precisely when we need them.”

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