"Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all."

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Source : Wallace Thurman (2012). “The Blacker the Berry”, p.92, Courier Corporation

Wallace Thurman

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“I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.”
“It's a very different feeling just sitting around the side, playing piano, and dancing around as opposed to standing in front and singing.”

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“A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.”
“When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate, which will produce the most glorious flowers, which will bear the sweetest fruit. A good gardener plants them all, tends and nurtures them, and wishes them well. Optimism is the best fertilizer.”

Source : Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart (2012). “Clockwork Angels: The Novel”, p.8, ECW Press
“Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency to descend, and flows with great readiness. It is this the Holy Scripture has in view when it says, "And the darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Water, then, is the most beautiful element and rich in usefulness, and purifies from all filth, and not only from the filth of the body but from that of the soul, if it should have received the grace of the Spirit.”
“Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?”
“I don't have any nicknames.”
“Teddy has lost that yard of pace he never had.”

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