"I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker."

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Source : Curt Flood, Richard Carter (1971). “The way it is”, Trident Press (WA)

Curt Flood

#Black Quotes #Wish Quotes #Skins Quotes

“Don't ever underestimate the capacity of a human being who is determined to do something.”
“A Yuppie is someone who believes it's courageous to eat in a restaurant that hasn't been reviewed yet.”
“The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to man: they hedge in free opinion and experimentation on all sides. Consider, for example, the matter of religion. It is debated freely and furiously in almost every country in the world save the United States, but here the critic is silenced. The result is that all religions are equally safeguarded against criticism, and that all of them lose vitality. We protect the status quo, and so make steady war upon revision and improvement.”
“The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else.”
“I played soccer because my friends did. Besides we got sodas afterwards.”
“A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.”
“Ever wonder how many angels you have? All of them. They insisted.”
“Sometimes when we see or hear of a need, there is nothing we can do to help. Sometimes the only thing we can do is pray. But never underestimate the power of the prayers of the righteous.”

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