"Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it was not tampered with by white people. It was not on the media. It was not anywhere except where black people were. And it is one of the art forms in which black people decided what is good in it. Nobody told them. What surfaced and what floated to the top, were the giants and the best."

-- Toni Morrison

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“An author's first duty is to let down his country.”
“That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”
“Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I seen" ever escaped the keen ears of his eldest sister, who immediately corrected him. Mother sometimes thought Katherine a little severe when, in the interest of proper speaking, she would stop him in the midst of an exciting account of a home-run. There were times, thought Mother, when the spirit of the thing was so much more important than the flesh in which it was clothed.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1999). “The Collected Short Works, 1920-1954”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press
“I think I did experience culture shock. When I first arrived in Boston, I was basically told to go home. "Homeboy" is what they called me - very funny. I didn't take offense. I just thought, This is exactly where I want to be. The pace was different. Houston is a sprawling city. Boston is just crammed into the size of a postage stamp.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.”
“Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.”
“We need a break from Capitalism,”

Source : "Seattle socialist Kshama Sawant’s SOTU response: ‘We need a break from capitalism’". Response to the State of the Union address, www.rawstory.com. January 29, 2014.
“If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you canâ€™t see yourself doing it, usually you canâ€™t achieve it.”

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