"One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership."

-- C. L. R. James

#Leadership Quotes #Character Quotes #Demand Quotes

“The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.”
“So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.”
“When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.”
“My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.”
“Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.”
“When the Word is stored in the heart, the individual finds it a wonderful power in preserving him from outbreaking sin.”
“What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.”
“Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.”

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