"Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right."

-- Alan Paton

#Standards Quotes

“I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.”
“But that is like saying that the hole in the sand looks like the stick that you made the hole in the sand with. Holes in the sand and sticks are worlds apart. To put what happened into language would be like trying to describe a stick by telling you about the hole in the sand.”
“Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.”
“I have a few different managers, and one of them hit me up today and was like 'I'm going to set you up with these guys doing beats and such...' I was like cool, as long as I can do what I do. Just because kids are going like this now, I'm not going to do that because I am not 18 years old. I'm not going to rap like I'm in grade three because it's popular. I'm just not going to do that. It's not because I'm being stubborn, and I definitely not that guy that is getting older and does not understand the younger generation.”
“But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man.”
“If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.”
“Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.”
“No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

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