In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
~ Toni Morrison
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
~ Toni Morrison
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An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
~ Will Rogers
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Keep moving. Let nothing slow you up. Move on with dignity and honor and respectability.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
~ Saul Bellow
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Violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem; it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
~ Toni Morrison
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The success of communism in the world today is due to the failure of democracy to live up to the noble ideals and principles inherent in its system.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
~ Saul Bellow
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Personally, I have always felt the best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can’t ask his patients what is the matter — he’s got to just know.
~ Will Rogers
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Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.
~ Norbert Wiener
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