"Bravery and I are not on intimate terms – my natural curiosity is tempered with caution, thus I've lived long. But now, ignoring my instict to flee or fib, I speak the truth without regard to consequence; your courage deserves no less. You've suffered great pain, and you've caused some. You've endured deep grief and feelings of guilt, but you will be tested by a more wrenching anguish, Alice. There is worse to come. You and this Red Queen cannot both survive; you are two parts of the same – mia-meow!" ~The Cheshire Cat~
"The Shit? Ah!! THE SHIT!! Don't worry. You'll get "The Shit". In fact you'll be knee deep in "The Shit". " Clarence Williams III-Tales From the Hood.
"The United States is beset by violence, racism and torture and has no authority to condemn other governments' human rights problems", China said on Sunday, countering U.S. criticism of Beijing's crackdown.
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." -Frederick Douglass
"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." -- Henry Adams
"The Oval Office, I always thought I was going to have really cool phones and stuff.I'm like, 'C'mon guys I'm the president of the United States.' Where's the fancy buttons and stuff and the big screen comes up? It doesn't happen" : President Obama, in an unscripted moment, speaking to donors at a small Chicago fundraiser last week, according to the Associated Press
"The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image." : Charles W. Chestnutt
"If you teach the negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race" Carter G. Woodson
"The real tragedy is that there are some ignorant brothers out here. That's why I'm not on this all-White or all-Black shit. I'm on this all real or all fake shit with people whatever color you are because ni**as will do you. I mean, there's some foul ni**as out there in the streets; the same ni**as that did Malcolm X, the same ni**as that did Jesus Christ, every brother ain't a brother. So just because it's Black, don't mean it's cool. And just because it's White don't mean it's evil." -2Pac
In hard economic times I'm more interested in the return of my money than the return on my money. - Wil Rogers
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink." -- George Orwell
" There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity." -- Robertson Davies
