"My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is."

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Source : "Being Black and 'Difficult' in Hollywood". Interview with Ishmael Reed, www.counterpunch.org. September 24, 2010.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

#Cousin Quotes #Children Quotes #Father Quotes

“Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.”

Source : Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.233, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I do not limit God by seeing limitation in myself. With God and myself all things are possible.”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn (2013). “Your Word is Your Wand: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.11, Lulu Press, Inc
“Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.”

Source : "Christina Hendricks surprised by sexiness". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. February 2, 2012.
“It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.”

Source : "Glenn Beck: An Hour With Author Vince Flynn". "Glenn Beck", www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2009.
“A huge Chinese population here in... Houston.”
“It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.”
“With drooping bells of clearest blue Thou didst attract my childish view, Almost resembling The azure butterflies that flew Where on the heath thy blossoms grew So lightly trembling.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 353), 1922.
“Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.”

Source : Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”

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