Barias O Quotes & Sayings

In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave] ... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn! — Mengistu Haile Mariam

Love is the most potent drug used to seduce anyone. — Debasish Mridha

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidates who reminded them most of themselves. I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn't understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. — Charles Bukowski

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never — Lord Byron

The only limit to success is your own imagination. — Shonda Rhimes

The letters Y, E and S danced on my tongue and shimmied between my teeth. — Gabrielle Tozer

Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen. — Shunryu Suzuki