"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."

-- W. E. B. Du Bois

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“Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.”
“Just because others have it worse doesnâ€™t mean you have to suffer in silence.”

Source : Jonathan Kellerman (2003). “Self-Defense: An Alex Delaware Novel”, p.22, Ballantine Books
“Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.”
“Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?”

Source : Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”
“In terms of addressing some of the most impacted communities and historically excluded communities - often of color, often low income - there is this adage in specifically African American communities that on every corner in low income neighborhoods you'll find a liquor store.”
“There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that. We're haunted by the genocide that is America, the decimation of so many native cultures. As a mix-blood European ancestry American, you're a nexus of all those violences, and yet there's a relative personal identity as well.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“I know I get cold, cause I can't leave things well alone. Understand I'm accident prone. Me, I get free every night the moon is mine. But when the morning comes don't say you love me, don't say you need me. I really don't think that's fair.”

Source : Song: Wishing I Was There, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997
“I don't like medicine. There's an old Irish proverb that goes, "If I knew where I was going to die, I wouldn't go there." I suspect that I'm going to die in a hospital, so every time I go past one, I drive really quickly to get away from those things. So I spend a lot of money on health: gyms, I go to naturopaths, acupuncturists; anybody else who's almost the alternative to medicine. I think by the time you need medicine, it's too late. That's my belief.”

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