Curious Incident Important Quotes & Sayings

Black America "isn't just as fissured as white America; it is more so," wrote Gates. And the mounting intraracial disparities mean that the realities of race no longer affect all blacks in the same way. There have been perverse consequences: in part to assuage our sense of survivor's guilt, we often cloak these differences in a romantic black nationalism - something that has become the veritable socialism of the black bourgeoisie.32 — Jason L. Riley

I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York. — Andrew Rannells

Why can't I love him (a 2 yr old nephew) from afar? That's how I want to love him - through pictures and folklore. — Ray Romano

Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that. — Patrick Carney

Something in us recognizes magic when we encounter it. Whether we believe in it consciously or not. It affects us and the choices we make. — Jeffe Kennedy

if you only let your thoughts go, they can come up with all sorts of things, conjuring up images of anyone at all, making caricatures of even the people that you know and love most.
The self-preservation instinct. Let your subconscious make parodies of your loss and anxiety and jealousy. — Mons Kallentoft

Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment. — Frederick Lenz

So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons. — Michael Ondaatje

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it. — Robert Morgan

Leonardo da Vinci. He knew and achieved more than possibly any other man that ever lived. He was never satisfied with the knowledge he had; he always wanted to learn more about the workings of the world. — Can Akdeniz