Chanathip Songkrasins Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Too few of us from the Black Power generation and the movements to take power in cities through the election of black elected officials have told our story. Hence there is very little understanding of the agenda for change we outlined for black people and America in the 1960s and early 1970s. We wanted self-determination, and end to racism, and economic security. It is an agenda that was never fulfilled, and hence the title of my book, Unfinished Agenda. — Junius Williams

Like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, resurrection by human power rather than divine spirit always produces a monstrosity. If — Robert P. Jones

Happiness is slippery, it slithers away between your fingers, but problems are something you can hold on to, they've got handles, they're rough and hard — Isabel Allende

When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it. — Zach Condon

If the generations of mankind suffered and laid down their lives; if martyrs sang in the fire ... for no other end than that a race of creatures of such unexampled insipidity should succeed, and protract ... their contented and inoffensive lives, why, at such a rate ... better ring down the curtain before the last act of the play, so that a business that began so importantly may be saved from so singularly flat a winding up. — William James

Too much study leads to worn out, — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'll always deny that I kissed her.
I was just whispering into her mouth. — Stephen Dunn

Be mindful that you may have inadvertently upset those who speak harshly to you. Know also that they may simply be complete arseholes. — Jo S. Wun

Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings. — Aberjhani

Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers. — Fran Lebowitz