Country Girl Poems Quotes & Sayings

We are real black characters with real character, not the stars of American racist spectacle. Blackness is not probable cause. — Kiese Laymon

Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare. — Gail Caldwell

I love' Les Mis,' and I owe it a lot, because I wouldn't have been born without it. — Eliza Doolittle

Gradually I slid into the persuasion that these troubles of mine touching the scrivener, had been all predestinated from eternity, and Bartleby was billeted upon me for some mysterious purpose of an all-wise Providence, which it was not for a mere mortal like me to fathom. — Herman Melville

Human technology may have changed, but not human nature, or not that much. Now ... we have people protesting once more that the system isn't fair." He snorted. "Of course it's not. No system is fair. It's only a question of being as fair as possible, given the physical limits of the world and the various limits of the population. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever. — Dorothy L. Sayers