Allan Dare Pearce Quotes & Sayings

But, ladies and gentlemen, we will also be asked to make sacrifices in matters that are not our affair and that do not concern us, sacrifices that would leave our people bleeding or wounded, or even dead, from battle. There is no equality for us in this lifetime. — Allan Dare Pearce

Racism, Dr. Sam. I worry for my kids about racism. Racism doesn't appear to take holidays or time off. What can I do about this stuff? — Allan Dare Pearce

Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick. — Allan Dare Pearce

I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing. — Allan Dare Pearce

He gives tap dancing lessons to dolts, and you've been recommended by those in the know. — Allan Dare Pearce

Having something forbidden is exciting, don't you agree? — Allan Dare Pearce

In the eye of my mind, I imagine what the world could be. — Allan Dare Pearce

These young people are going to change the world. — Allan Dare Pearce

There is, you will concede, a limit to the niceties a man is obliged to fulfill when his wife is dead and not yet cold. — Allan Dare Pearce

When you reach voting age, we will take your opinion under consideration. — Allan Dare Pearce

My daughter is black and she has to know what it is like to be black. My daughter should know you, Aiken, but she should learn what it means to be black, and you cannot teach her that. — Allan Dare Pearce

Everything in life is not a joke."

"No, but it mostly is. — Allan Dare Pearce

My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek. — Allan Dare Pearce

If they die, we bury them; if they don't, we won't. — Allan Dare Pearce

My pa maintained that there are three important parts to a man. You got the heart, the brain, and the python. — Allan Dare Pearce

This here is Orange Crush, son. It don't get better till you're legal. — Allan Dare Pearce

We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free. — Allan Dare Pearce

I believe you get up in the morning and do the best you can. — Allan Dare Pearce

Come meet my dog."

"What's the dog's name?"

"Justice."

"Nice touch for a judge. A dog named Justice. — Allan Dare Pearce

I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them. — Allan Dare Pearce

And he took the slap like a man. No whining. What else do you want from a fella? — Allan Dare Pearce

Here is a sermon for you, Reverend: Everything not dead dies. Just like those little fellows scooting around beside that dead mamma goose, little downy fellas who are gonna meet a hungry weasel or vicious farm dog before nightfall, their world stands in chaos, and not of their own doing. — Allan Dare Pearce

Kids are important. The most important thing. — Allan Dare Pearce

You can't say asses in church unless you are speaking of donkeys. — Allan Dare Pearce

People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition. — Allan Dare Pearce

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere. — Allan Dare Pearce

Humble' is another way or saying 'simple' or 'poor' like we can't have fun; we can't roll up the rugs and dance, or tap the sap, or make decorations for a tree. It's pious and is just the sort of thing that lectures a room or depresses it, and you have to have a wall hanging because the old biddies say so, but you don't like it and you wish you didn't need it. In fact, you absolutely hate it. — Allan Dare Pearce

We need consistency and predictability, and a sense of proper placement. We need these things before we can mold the world into what we know it can be. — Allan Dare Pearce

What does it hurt to be sociable? — Allan Dare Pearce

A woman only needs one pair of shoes for an outfit. But God, you've got to get it just right. — Allan Dare Pearce

Does anyone like a fat old cow?"

"Maybe other fat old cows? — Allan Dare Pearce

Son of a bitch! Even dead people are after my ass today. — Allan Dare Pearce

Some days in the camp you prayed to live; some days you prayed to die quick. Some days you didn't bother praying, knowing there was no sense to anything. — Allan Dare Pearce

Are we praying?"

"If you have to ask, you probably aren't. — Allan Dare Pearce

We need to bring out the rabble-rousing nature of people. We are gonna need un-repression. We need hundreds of people farting up a storm. We need a big-time, old-fashioned, furious, fart storm. — Allan Dare Pearce

Smile! Make them comfortable with your size. Deal with their fears and your fears will go away. — Allan Dare Pearce

To the extent a man can control chaos, he should put his testicles on the line and do so, but when a man can't, he should just step aside, or someone in the lineup behind him is gonna bite his ass. — Allan Dare Pearce

A black suit always goes well at a funeral. — Allan Dare Pearce

This is the time for black people to stand and be counted. — Allan Dare Pearce

Insanity is not a fit topic for high-school children. — Allan Dare Pearce

Sometimes you know the answer to a question deep down but you ask the question for some other reason. — Allan Dare Pearce

They'll want to kill the crazies first. Big fish eat little fish -- always have, always will. — Allan Dare Pearce

Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered position on anything important? — Allan Dare Pearce

Until the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man. — Allan Dare Pearce

Family is more important than anything. — Allan Dare Pearce

Anyone hurts my family, I slap them down. A man does for family. That's one of the rules I got from my pa. His rules for being a man. — Allan Dare Pearce

When the city burns down and people are shot dead, people think of a riot. — Allan Dare Pearce

Identifying an issue is halfway to resolving it. — Allan Dare Pearce

Something girls never understood about poker night. The real point of the card play was to razz. Razzing calls forth unbridled farm-boy humour, earthy by some standards. The best quip involves belittling someone else's penis, or turning it back on the sayer, or both. — Allan Dare Pearce

Manners count. Be polite and seek out the common ground, not just the high ground. — Allan Dare Pearce

Surely you can see the failings of the system. Inequality, injustice, unfairness, and exploitation-- — Allan Dare Pearce

Your repressed feelings desperately try to climb to the surface but fail to do so, and in therapy we seek to reveal -- to uncloak, if you will -- these unconscious desires, the things that your mind tries to repress, those secrets of your soul. — Allan Dare Pearce

Staying home is overrated. — Allan Dare Pearce

Three of the revolutions," Bermuda said, "the French, the Russian, and the American, were true only in the beginning. Just true in the beginning, man."

"True?"

"True to the people, you know...Afterwards, they forgot their roots, man, and the revolutions went off the track. They turned into huge bureaucracies and administrations. — Allan Dare Pearce

Don't harp on things. People will think you're addled. — Allan Dare Pearce

He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important. — Allan Dare Pearce

Bank robbing is more of a sure thing than farming. — Allan Dare Pearce

Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken, but not to both. You understand. — Allan Dare Pearce

Brain, maybe you should take a brief vacation. Take two aspirin and sit on the bench. Someone just smacked a line drive up the middle of the heart. — Allan Dare Pearce

She placed her hands, one on each of his shoulders, stood on her toes and kissed him on the lips. He waited, enjoying the moment like none before. — Allan Dare Pearce

Well, tests ain't fair. Those that study have an unfair advantage. It's always been that way. — Allan Dare Pearce

Everyone loves a girl who can rise to a crisis. — Allan Dare Pearce

Schizophrenia. Always a bitch. — Allan Dare Pearce

Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity. — Allan Dare Pearce

I am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of me are do-nothings. There is racism in the world and they acknowledge it, but they sit in class listening to bullshit professors. Give me a bricklayer with a racist attitude. It is just more honest. — Allan Dare Pearce

Do a lot of questions mean you are really smart or really dumb? — Allan Dare Pearce

I don't care about legal. Is it wise? — Allan Dare Pearce

Mellow is how I feel right now. I feel in perfect tune with the world right now. — Allan Dare Pearce