"How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored."

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Source : Arna Wendell Bontemps (1973). “The Old South: "A summer tragedy" and other stories of the thirties”, Dodd Mead

Arna Bontemps

#Parent Quotes #Dare Quotes #Critics Quotes

“It's hard in L.A. not to go out, it gets lonely. Being an actress is lonely, and I never want to be alone. I hate sleeping alone.”
“Babe, you've destroyed a car, burned down two buildings, stapled a guy's nuts, and you have sixteen stitches in your leg. Take a night off. Have a glass of wine, watch some television, and go to bed early." -Ranger”
“I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.”
“Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.”
“...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.”
“Anything easy ain't worth a damn!”
“It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.”
“I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage”

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