"...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the races draws down upon those who suggest it, because nobody pretends to deny that, throughout the South, a large proportion of the population is the offspring of white men and colored women."

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Source : Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.14

Fanny Kemble

#Men Quotes #Race Quotes #White Quotes

“If I see MS Dhoni coming to bat at number 4, I will be the happiest person on earth”
“Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.”

Source : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.368, Macmillan
“Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.”
“A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don't snicker: Would you ever say, 'Nothing has gone wrong yet' without looking for wood to knock?”
“You have so much to learn from your enemies.”
“If I am used to looking at a paper chart and finding information that I know approximately where I'm going to look at that and now I have to go to a computer and find it a different way.”
“A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.”
“The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.”

Source : Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.96, iUniverse

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