"I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi."

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Source : Piers Anthony (2012). “On a Pale Horse”, p.150, Del Rey

Dick Gregory

#Rights Quotes #White Quotes #Black Quotes

“There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.”
“The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create.”
“A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.”
“I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually.”
“We live in a very powerful country that has worldwide impact. It really is a democracy, so it puts a call to the faithful to get off the couch, right now! I hope we don't have one in three African American kids hungry 10 years from now. There is no reason for that. Forget everything else. We know how to feed kids. We can feed kids without distorting incentives and stuff.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and restlessness felt like profound states of being, and he just wandered the empty beaches and misty headlands in a state of serene confusion and awe.”

Source : David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.401, Dial Press
“There has to be a song. There are too many dark nights, too many troublesome days, and too many wearisome miles. Somewhere deep in the forgotten corner of oneâ€™s heart- there has to be a song. Like a cool, clear drink of water and like the gentle warmth of sunshine, and like the tender love of a child, there has to be a song!”
“My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.”

Source : "Nik Wallenda finishes high-wire act that killed great-grandfather" by Kelly Daniel, www.cnn.com. June 4, 2011.

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