"What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call."

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Source : Liz Carpenter (1993). “Getting Better All the Time”, Texas A & M University Press

Liz Carpenter

#Love Quotes #Writing Quotes #Phones Quotes

“All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.”
“Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated emancipation plan as early as November, 1861 - but no slaveholders were willing to go along with it.”
“And then he [Mike Tyson] will have only channel vision.”
“To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.”
“Not everything in my life has been pretty.”
“I think the first time you try anything in a public way, you feel really exposed.”
“I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action ...”

Source : Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”
“Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.”

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