"I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful."

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Source : "Q and A with Author Pearl Cleage". Q and A with Author Pearl Cleage, abcnews.go.com.

Pearl Cleage

#School Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.”
“Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.”

Source : Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.41, Рипол Классик
“I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.”

Source : Jane Smiley (2011). “A Thousand Acres: A Novel”, p.69, Anchor
“The gravest question any of us face is whether we do or do not love the Lord.”
“Jesus was a storyteller with amazing messages wrapped around them. What we want to do is get back to that. I'm not a preacher. I'm not the person on Sunday. I am the person that is trying to figure out life and wants to be pushed to be a better person. The first one that we're in production with right now is called Nouvelle Vie.”
“When I'm not working out, playing football or working with Vita Coco, I'm a video game nerd. I love playing video games. I'm really good at FIFA. I'm not one of those guys that uses Barcelona or Real Madrid to win. My skills are real, so I don't need a loaded team to dominate. You don't want to play me in FIFA.”

Source : Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.
“We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.”
“Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.”

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