Quotes
Authors
Mary Pipher

"We live in a world filled with language. Language impartsÂ identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community.Â Writers are either polluters or part of the clean-up team. Just as the language of power and greed has the potential to destroy us, the language of reason and empathy has the power to save us. Writers can inspire a kinder, fairer, more beautiful world, or invite selfishness, stereotyping, and violence. Writers can unite people or divide them."

-- Mary Pipher

#Beautiful Quotes #Team Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“Whether chocolate or vanilla, or you're somewhere in between, A cappuccino mocha or a caramel queen, Rejected by the black, not accepted by the white world, And this is dedicated to them dark-skinned white girls.”

Source : Song: Dark Skinned White Girl
“A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy.”
“Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.”
“Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.”
“A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.”

Source : Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.408, Macmillan
“I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'”
“I am now pretty far advanced in life, and all my views are center'd in the Happiness and well-fare of my children; you will therefore find from me every Indulgence which you have a right to expect from an affectionate Parent.”
“No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning...”

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