"Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare."

-- Horace Walpole

#Age Quotes #Might Quotes #Purity Quotes

“Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.”

Source : Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr
“People may have said, "The dude's gay; how are we going to market this?" But it's not an issue for me, because being out is very freeing.”

Source : Interview With Karman Kregloe, www.newnownext.com. July 8, 2007.
“In autism there is just genes in part more or less of a probability that you will have the disorder, and that is where interactions with the environment are key.”

Source : "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.
“Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.”
“Why write stories? To join the conversation.”
“Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.”
“Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.”
“We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.”

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