"Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black peopleâ€™s] secrets. . . .Â They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . . . Selling fried potatoes and people, the little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the arabâ€™s head."

-- Amiri Baraka

#Atheist Quotes #Talking Quotes #People Quotes

“I'm terrified to get married. I'm not getting married till my gay friends can.”
“Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason.”

Source : Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.38, Regnery Publishing
“One never knows, do one?”

Source : StormyWeather (motion picture) (1943).Waller used this phrase as an actor in this film, but it was earlier a catchphrase in his singing performances.
“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
“America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.”

Source : "Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty" by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.
“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.”
“The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.”

Source : ""The Garner Files: A Memoir"". Book by James Garner, 2011.
“An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.”

Source : "Mauvaises Pensées et Autres". Book by Paul Valery, 1941.

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