"You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin"

-- William Christopher Handy

#Mind Quotes #Use Quotes #Harlem Quotes

“I think dancing is one of the best things anyone can do for themselves. And it doesn't cost anything.”
“Then there was communism's weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn't take all the money away from all the people since all the people don't have money. We should take all the money away from only the people who make money. Then, when we run out of that, we could take more money from the people who...hey, wait! Where'd you people go? What do you mean you're "tax exiles in Monaco?"”
“I can’t imagine what my school friends must have thought was going on because I was wandering around in some kind of dream. I felt as though my insides had been taken out which is, I now realize, the right feeling.”
“Libraries are the pride of the city.”
“I frowned at the list. â€œSoâ€¦ Iâ€™ll go back and tell the Traynors that Iâ€™m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympicsâ€””
“Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.”
“We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.”
“Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.”

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