"My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers."

-- John Lewis

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Mother And Father Quotes

“Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.”
“Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.”
“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.”
“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”
“An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.”
“From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.”
“The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.”
“The Brazilian national identity is not one of JoÃ£o Gilberto Noll primary concerns. This does not mean social critique is absent: race, gender, and class relations are considered in Quiet Creature. And these are universal relational matters, not necessarily particular to any country. Some critics have commented that understanding the specific Brazilian political context of the novel is helpful for reading Quiet Creature. This may be true, but it's not prerequisite for understanding it.”

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