"However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects."

-- William Labov

#Years Quotes #African American Quotes #Important Quotes

“My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.”
“Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.”
“Are you with women who only bleed monthly on their cycles?”

Source : Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Do you laugh in the right places? Then, youâ€™ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something thatâ€™s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if itâ€™s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.”
“God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that. From a speech in 2007-JUN at the Wasilla Assembly of God church. 3,4”
“The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.”
“I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.”
“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”

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