"Who can be born black and not exult!"

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Source : Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”

Mari Evans

#Black Quotes #Born Quotes

“I really love young Tom Hanks. He's just one of my favorites. He's a great, quirky every-man. I also love Zach Braff. I really love actors that are quirky and interesting, that sort of try to portray 'normal' people.”
“Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.”
“How did I get hooked? Well, it's something like you journalists having a drink after work”
“May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.”
“Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.”

Source : Andrzej Stasiuk (2009). “Fado”
“I like to dominate powerful men..Black men aren't good at oral $ex””
“When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.”
“What does it say, 'I beat Meryl,'”

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