The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me.


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A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
CARTER GLASS
The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her a...
ANGELA CARTER
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
ANGELA CARTER
There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any ...
STEPHEN CARTER
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your...
ANGELA CARTER
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
ANGELA CARTER
This nation has dehumanized its adversaries calling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.
JIMMY CARTER
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I wil...
JIMMY CARTER
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human ...
JIMMY CARTER
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
ROSALYNN CARTER
Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.
BRIAN CARTER
I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any pr...
BRIAN CARTER
Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, y...
BRIAN CARTER
I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those...
CARTER HEYWARD
We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there wit...
ANGELA CARTER
Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to -- to balance the family tic...
LILLIAN CARTER
If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one.
ALLY CARTER
And Zach was taking his jacket off and draping it around my shoulders, which (according to Liz, who ...
ALLY CARTER
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
ANGELA CARTER
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessaril...
ROSALYNN CARTER
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, le...
HODDING CARTER
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
LILLIAN CARTER
As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air po...
MAJORA CARTER
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
JIMMY CARTER
You need to have explosive power. So you need to have good agility to move your feet quick and be in...
MICHELLE CARTER
I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.
CARLENE CARTER
Just because you have a piece of trash and you throw it away and it gets hauled away, it doesn't...
MAJORA CARTER
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the ...
JIMMY CARTER
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God kno...
JIMMY CARTER
I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New ...
JIMMY CARTER