Colson Whitehead
Related NAT KING COLE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON When I went down to Carolina, probably the biggest shock was when I went to the movies, they had an ... DOUG MOE STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY LORRAINE HANSBERRY HARRY BELAFONTE DAVID SEDARIS SUSAN B. ANTHONY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY HENRY JAMES WALTER DEAN MYERS CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH TAMMARA WEBBER FRANCINE RIVERS TONI MORRISON ROSA PARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY SOJOURNER TRUTH SUE MONK KIDD FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS The line of red are lines of blood, nobly and unselfishly shed by
men who loved the liberty of thei... THOMAS WOODROW WILSON We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL That's a human error. He should have colored the other side. It was the right side of the face and n... LYDIA SALDANA JOSEPHINE BAKER Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High, / Who creates, then makes complete, / And Who makes (t... QURAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES What we called ourselves in 1944 - colored or Negro - we don't do anymore. Where we are now is not w... CHARLES FULLER STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to wo... JACOB EPSTEIN C. JOYBELL C. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A.A. MILNE A.A. MILNE LANG LEAV ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH W.E.B. DU BOIS JOHN DONNE CHLOE THURLOW JACK KEROUAC JOHN LEWIS Second letter from Mom:ELENA D. CALIN [He initially clashed with the autocratic director.] One day he chewed me out in front of a lot of p... BROCK PETERS MOLLY IVINS STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY He said now you're gonna have colored baby chicks aren't you?. He made it a point to come get 'em. M... KAY JOHNSTON KARL LAGERFELD KIERSTEN WHITE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:THE PROPHET OF LIFE HIRAM RHODES REVELS ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH J.J. MCAVOY Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk. DONALD SADOWAY BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA ED SHEERAN MARGARET ATWOOD C. JOYBELL C. ANNE FRANK Bemoan being lower-middle-class and colored in a police state that protects only rich white people a... PAUL BEATTY ERNEST HEMINGWAY BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA VINCENT VAN GOGH JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH PLATO DEYTH BANGER The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE He was a fine referee, but what I am going to remember most is that he was a great human being. He d... JEAN BELIVEAU Until we identity the real cause of an ailment or problem,finding the cure will only be a mirage. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES CHARLES DARWIN Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool. EMM COLE STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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Crossing a single street transformed the way people talked, determined the size and condition of the... COLSON WHITEHEAD You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place ... COLSON WHITEHEAD The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of ... COLSON WHITEHEAD As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some ... COLSON WHITEHEAD It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing i... COLSON WHITEHEAD A firefly blinked into existence, drew half a word in the air. Then gone. A black bug secret in the ... COLSON WHITEHEAD memory has a palette and broad brush. COLSON WHITEHEAD in the slow motion that is the speed of humiliation. COLSON WHITEHEAD Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of ... COLSON WHITEHEAD Life! What Inscrutable Card Shall Ye Throw Next Upon the Soft Felt of Our Days? COLSON WHITEHEAD I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've sp... COLSON WHITEHEAD And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all... COLSON WHITEHEAD There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to ... COLSON WHITEHEAD see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted ... COLSON WHITEHEAD When black blood was money, the savvy businessman knew to open the vein. COLSON WHITEHEAD High-minded idiocy pitted against the power of coin. COLSON WHITEHEAD The words from across the ocean were beaten out of them over time. For simplicity, to erase their id... COLSON WHITEHEAD How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties–so many freed men continued to be enslaved by... COLSON WHITEHEAD The doctor was a frequent visitor at Miss Trumball's establishment, preferring it to the Lanchester ... COLSON WHITEHEAD You are a soulless monster whose fright mask is incapable of capturing human expressions. COLSON WHITEHEAD Cora blamed the people who wrote it down. People always got things wrong, on purpose as much as by a... COLSON WHITEHEAD Nature is a strong brand name. Everybody knew that. First thing, Nomenclature 101. Slap Natural on t... COLSON WHITEHEAD I don't feel like I have to conform to some idea of what black literature is. I think of my ideas an... COLSON WHITEHEAD It was just very calming, I became less anxious about what my next move was. I think it gave me brea... COLSON WHITEHEAD We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them. COLSON WHITEHEAD A monster is a person who has stopped pretending. COLSON WHITEHEAD I was a skinny guy, but I was morbidly obese with doom. COLSON WHITEHEAD Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with the trees up cl... COLSON WHITEHEAD He imagined a town called A. Around the communal fire they’re shaping arrowheads and carving tribu... COLSON WHITEHEAD I feel about my phone the way horror-movie ventriloquists feel about their dummies: It's smarter tha... COLSON WHITEHEAD The loneliness is the worst, because this knowledge is something that cannot be shared, only suffere... COLSON WHITEHEAD Why should anyone else have it easy. Spoken like a true New Yorker. COLSON WHITEHEAD He spills his guts, it was the last sip that sent him over the edge but she has her hands full with ... COLSON WHITEHEAD Tonight the song you always despised strides from the jukebox full-bodied and you hear the lyrics fo... COLSON WHITEHEAD People spare a minute or two relishing other people's setbacks before their own inadequacies distrac... COLSON WHITEHEAD Did you know that smiling politely burns up the same amount of calories as speaking your mind. COLSON WHITEHEAD Things are pretty much status quo with the sexual-tension friend. COLSON WHITEHEAD Three cheers for your rich interior life, may it serve you well come rent day. COLSON WHITEHEAD Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel not so terrible about my various emotional... COLSON WHITEHEAD Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. COLSON WHITEHEAD Sleep the sleep of the successful because somehow you made it through the day without anyone finding... COLSON WHITEHEAD Improbable as it may be, the day still has a few indignities left. The day waters down indignity wit... COLSON WHITEHEAD Failing at everything except his fear of success. Passed over yet again. Archivist of slights. Every... COLSON WHITEHEAD Optimism skipped out on the rent a while back, but the cynic in the penthouse won't leave until led ... COLSON WHITEHEAD Why not remove his desk, bring in a treadmill, hang a carrot from the ceiling and stop all pretense ... COLSON WHITEHEAD Try to forget bit by bit, it will be easier on you. Leave it behind. Then the plane tilts in its esc... COLSON WHITEHEAD When you talk about this trip, and you will, because it was quite a journey and you witnessed many t... COLSON WHITEHEAD Cherish your old apartments and pause for a moment when you pass them. Pay tribute, for they are the... COLSON WHITEHEAD The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone. COLSON WHITEHEAD Live every minute as if you are late for the last train. COLSON WHITEHEAD New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy. COLSON WHITEHEAD Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us. COLSON WHITEHEAD IF THEY THINK those two words New York will fix them, who are we to say otherwise. COLSON WHITEHEAD We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. COLSON WHITEHEAD But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it...COLSON WHITEHEAD He told her that every one of her enemies, all the masters and overseers of her suffering, would be ... COLSON WHITEHEAD The almanac had a strange, soapy smell and made a cracking noise like fire as she turned the pages. ... COLSON WHITEHEAD White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy... COLSON WHITEHEAD The music stopped. The circle broke. Sometimes a slave will be lost in a brief eddy of liberation. I... COLSON WHITEHEAD It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but not one of them could be prideful of their la... COLSON WHITEHEAD But we have all been branded even if you can't see it, inside if not without COLSON WHITEHEAD Men start off good and then the world makes them mean. The world is mean from the start and gets mea... COLSON WHITEHEAD As the years pass, Valentine observed, racial violence only becomes more vicious in its expression. ... COLSON WHITEHEAD The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another count... COLSON WHITEHEAD The park sustained them, the green harbor they preserved as the town extended itself outward, block ... COLSON WHITEHEAD The only way to know how long you are lost in the darkness is to be saved from it. COLSON WHITEHEAD There was an order of misery, misery tucked inside miseries, and you were meant to keep track. COLSON WHITEHEAD Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties. COLSON WHITEHEAD Freedom was a community laboring for something lovely and rare. COLSON WHITEHEAD The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse. COLSON WHITEHEAD A plantation was a plantation; one might think one’s misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay... COLSON WHITEHEAD She wasn’t surprised when his character revealed itself—if you waited long enough, it always did... COLSON WHITEHEAD If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was suppo... COLSON WHITEHEAD If you want to see what this nation is all about, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you sp... COLSON WHITEHEAD Poetry and prayer put ideas in people’s heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruth... COLSON WHITEHEAD Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren’t looking, allu... COLSON WHITEHEAD Cora didn't know what optimistic meant. She asked the other girls that night if they were familiar w... COLSON WHITEHEAD The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as t... COLSON WHITEHEAD Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with bl... COLSON WHITEHEAD Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, u... COLSON WHITEHEAD Weeks passed, but my Word-A-Day Calendar was stuck on "motherfucker. COLSON WHITEHEAD True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. WHITEHEAD CHUCK COLSON Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandso... CHARLES COLSON Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion. CHARLES COLSON CHUCK COLSON Three of those are in the Elk Mound School District. We don't know where all these people are coming... BOB COLSON I'm not sure that's a good place to be, but we're there. BOB COLSON The Elk Mound School District will not reflect the state trend. BOB COLSON CHUCK COLSON CHUCK COLSON CHUCK COLSON CHUCK COLSON CHUCK COLSON One reason we've been in a lot of close games is that we've had a problem coming out early in games ... CHARLIE COLSON Brock does so many things well on and off the court. In practices he teaches, he communicates and he... CHARLIE COLSON I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon. CHARLES COLSON Hitting the billion dollar mark is the best incentive to keep going. The board of trustees understoo... DEAN COLSON All judges come with certain beliefs and life experiences and things like that. You have to be able ... DEAN COLSON It was apparent from the first day we were there that [Roberts] was an extraordinary intellect with ... DEAN COLSON His role was as a lawyer for a president who had an agenda. And he was trying to assist that preside... DEAN COLSON If you're a 27, 28-year-old lawyer, the idea of walking Capitol Hill for 30 minutes with a justice o... DEAN COLSON I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cann... CHARLES COLSON All military events are always free, but there are limited seats. We encourage people to get those p... ED COLSON I think this is going to be an extremely enjoyable event and something totally different for our com... ED COLSON I couldn't be more excited about this. We worked for two years to have one of the Washington, D.C., ... ED COLSON I can work for the Lord in or out of prison. CHARLES COLSON The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost ... CHARLES COLSON We are 45 minutes from an airport and four hours from L.A.. We've got a good-natured FedEx driver wh... KAMREN COLSON It was a great opportunity to show what can be done from a remote location. KAMREN COLSON It's not the biggest project we've ever done but it is the most exclusive. KAMREN COLSON He gave me the impression he took us seriously. KAMREN COLSON This is a way to help us grow and show people what we're capable of from our location. We sometimes ... KAMREN COLSON It's such an exclusive audience. It seems outrageous that all the people going to the Oscars will be... KAMREN COLSON But it's one of the most exclusive in terms of the audience that will be holding it in their hands, ... KAMREN COLSON We were pleasantly surprised - it's a dream come true for all of us. Historically, the provider of t... KAMREN COLSON Right away at the meeting they said they appreciated our initiative and were pleased with our submis... KAMREN COLSON The spirit of Dunkirk is something everyone grew up learning about. After Dunkirk, everyone came tog... FIONN WHITEHEAD You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film! FIONN WHITEHEAD I'm not really a green juice kind of guy. I like feeling downtrodden and worthless when I walk a... FIONN WHITEHEAD I like to think I'm fairly grounded, and I have friends who will very happily tell me if I'm... FIONN WHITEHEAD 'HIM' is much more of a British, coming-of-age series, while 'Stranger Things' is ve... FIONN WHITEHEAD I don't really think much about how I would have fared in the Second World War. It's a topic... FIONN WHITEHEAD I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there,... FIONN WHITEHEAD My 'Dunkirk' co-star Harry Styles deals with some crazy fan stuff, but he's a very down-... FIONN WHITEHEAD There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai res... FIONN WHITEHEAD I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. T... FIONN WHITEHEAD JOHN WHITEHEAD WILLIAM WHITEHEAD The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all th... ALFRED WHITEHEAD The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. ALFRED WHITEHEAD What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, ... ALFRED WHITEHEAD Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language ALFRED WHITEHEAD Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God ALFRED WHITEHEAD The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a... ALFRED WHITEHEAD True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ALFRED WHITEHEAD So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification fo... ALFRED WHITEHEAD Without adventure civilization is in full decay ALFRED WHITEHEAD It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equi... ALFRED WHITEHEAD Seek simplicity but distrust it. A.N. WHITEHEAD He really had good skills. I thought about how to bring him along slowly, yet capitalize on those sk... BILL WHITEHEAD It's kind of grandfatherly talk, but Neal is a very good boy. He doesn't want a lot of attention. Ye... BILL WHITEHEAD One of the things that is really unique about Neal is that, although he stretched out so fast and ev... BILL WHITEHEAD I never had to break up a fight or worry about someone getting upset with somebody else because some... BILL WHITEHEAD The strength of their team is absolutely to dribble penetrate. When a team allows them to dribble pe... BILL WHITEHEAD Northridge typically was quicker to loose stuff and was more alive than us. They played well and tha... BILL WHITEHEAD Just on paper, without seeing him play you would know he's a good player. When you watch him play, i... BILL WHITEHEAD He's not just an exceptional high school kid playing against average high school kids. He's an excep... BILL WHITEHEAD Sometimes we adults think that they're working and he's really just kind of playing. He's just doing... BILL WHITEHEAD With how good our league is, we still might be able to get a bye in the first round of the state tou... BILL WHITEHEAD JOHN WHITEHEAD It's an eye-opener for people to see how vulnerable they are. CARL WHITEHEAD But one of the things to note is in the FBI, we not only need to have that capability, we have to ha... CARL WHITEHEAD The threats we face are more diverse than ever. CARL WHITEHEAD That will really help with information sharing and investigations. CARL WHITEHEAD It's been a long time coming, and I think this will be a very positive thing for us and for the comm... CARL WHITEHEAD Unfortunately in Florida, we have our share of those types of cases where children are victims of th... CARL WHITEHEAD This is unfortunately a serious problem. It is a pervasive problem. CARL WHITEHEAD It was because of [Bishop's] abilities to get out and move the puck up the ice. TIM WHITEHEAD JOHN WHITEHEAD Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. TED WHITEHEAD He told me three weeks ago not to send anything else. PAUL WHITEHEAD What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation. ALFRED WHITEHEAD Yet we still have no idea what happened or where it even started, not even a description of a suspec... KIMBERLEY WHITEHEAD Older cars had those old vacuum windshield wiper systems, and when they went bad it was almost impos... ROBBY WHITEHEAD Tonight came down to the last whistle and we are fortunate to have advanced. We had our hands full t... TIM WHITEHEAD We didn't want to cry wolf. But I don't think the public generally realizes the predicament we're in... RONALD WHITEHEAD He might have been the best player among both teams. He is so strong on the puck. He's great at keep... TIM WHITEHEAD I would not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without a profound study of t... A.N. WHITEHEAD He is a fierce competitor. He loves to compete. When it comes to hockey he wants to win and his team... TIM WHITEHEAD His business died overnight. But he just shifted his focus to making power windows for those restori... ROBBY WHITEHEAD We had a body shop together, but he decided he wanted to start making the power windows. Conversion ... ROBBY WHITEHEAD WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Bring me a buyer and we will produce them a house in that range. There are plenty of builders in Mid... GARY WHITEHEAD It's a really tough job market for people my age. The openings just aren't there. A lot of the emplo... GARY WHITEHEAD I'm optimistic about eventually finding something, but it will be another 21 months before the degre... GARY WHITEHEAD A lot of these folks can't afford to find a new place that fast. JANICE WHITEHEAD Make sure your child is happy where they're going. If they're not happy, usually there is a problem. JANICE WHITEHEAD I've wrestled since I was 6 years old. I've gone through some of the most excruciating wrestling cam... MIKE WHITEHEAD John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He... CHARLES W. COLSON We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should al... CHARLES C. COLSON When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Da... CHARLES W. COLSON For years in Washington, they've all ended the same way - perjury and obstruction of justice. I don'... CHARLES W. COLSON I can work for the Lord in or out of prison CHARLES W. COLSON Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideolog... CHARLES W. COLSON But all at once I realized that it was not my success God had used to enable me to help those in thi... CHARLES W. COLSON People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, ar... CHARLES W. COLSON It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bu... CHARLES W. COLSON John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He... CHARLES W. COLSON The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost ... CHARLES W. COLSON It is time for us Christians to face up to our responsibility for holiness. Too often we say we are ... CHARLES W. 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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respe... 
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... 
I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... 
Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... 
The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who ... 
When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recentl... 
The thing to remeber is that more than anything in this world, these colored people wish they were w... 
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until th... 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was... 
Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort. 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green... 
In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport i... 
There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women... 
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but af... 
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. 
Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and fo... 
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and lar... 
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. 
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
I have always thought of memories as fragments, like colored glass shards in a kaleidoscope. It is t... 
May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... 
[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and ener... 
Love is a growing, or full constant light,
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver... 
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white m... 
If you grew up white before the civil rights movement anywhere in the South, all grown-ups lied. The... 
kind of flesh colored leather stockings more than boots. 
Plus as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and peach colored for her taste. I always thought ... 
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the ... 
The continuation of man’s life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire ... 
The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, decla... 
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... 
Liam, soon-to-be-fucking-dead, Callahan was walking down the stairs—my fucking stairs—with his s... 
The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor 
It's too cold outside
Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no... 
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... 
Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... 
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one ti... 
Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over 
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. 
Most guys in high school wore clothes seen only by their classmates. I wore clothes seen by the worl... 
If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Eart... 
Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... 
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeabl... 
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Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... 
These huge reptiles, surrounded by the black lava, the leafless shrubs and large cacti, seemed to my... 
The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and ... 
Hurricane Katrina was a wake-up call to this country . . . It wakes us up to the fact that our God i... 
We are not looking for power, ... We are not looking for prestige. We are here because we care very,... 
On a 60-mile stretch of road from Mutlaa, Kuwait, to Basra, Iraq, a convoy of more than 2,000 vehicl... 
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with lab... 
I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time in Vi... 
Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows. 
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. 