"But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target"

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Source : Richard Wright (2009). “Uncle Tom's Children”, p.30, Harper Collins

Richard Wright

#Color Quotes #Skins Quotes #Target Quotes

“I think the retirement crisis globally is a major problem. I think it's especially prevalant in countries such as Japan, where immigration is an issue. I think the US is more shielded from it than most countries in the world. It has a higher birth rate than Japan, immigration is tolerated here unlike probably it is in Japan. I don't think it's as big an issue in the US as it is elsewhere in the world.”
“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
“Ye canna give up hope when that is all ye have.”
“Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.”
“I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.”
“... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.”
“To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.”

Source : Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.69
“The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection of living organisms into the bloodinto a medium not intended for them may provoke redoubtable manifestations of the gravest morbid phenomena.”

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