"Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active and not just passive admirers of tradition!"

-- Carl Nielsen

#Giving Quotes #Long Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.”
“Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.”

Source : Speech at the DOJ African-American History Month Program, delivered 18 February 2009
“Back to work. If Iâ€™m [writing] Iâ€™m not thinking about the crazy.”
“The reason I know what we are to each other is because we fight freely and almost constantly, about even the smallest thing. In fact, once we didn't speak for an entire week because he didn't like the way I loaded his dishwasher...I can't decide if we're exact opposites, or somehow exactly the same except for minor cosmetic differences. I do know that all of his friends hate me and all of my friends hate him. We drive each other crazy in ways that nobody else can even touch. We never bore each other. And we both realize what a rare thing this is.”
“Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.”
“It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.”
“Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.”

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