"A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation."

-- Gertrude Stein

#Generations Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Conscious Quotes

“Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.”

Source : Edward P. Jones (2009). “The Known World”, p.41, Harper Collins
“Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.”
“Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.”
“I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.”
“Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God in the context of giving Adam divine instruction.”
“The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White Middle Class Woman--but since the leadership of this faction of the feminist movement has singled out black men as the meta-enemy of women, these women represent one of the most serious threats to black male well-being since the Klan.”
“Iâ€™d signed six things and my stack wasnâ€™t getting any smaller. It was like the paperwork was breeding while I worked.”
“I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.”

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