Koshonin 2 Quotes & Sayings

In South Africa, the atrocities of apartheid have never been taught that way. We weren't taught judgment or shame. We were taught history the way it's taught in America. In America, the history of racism is taught like this: "There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there was Martin Luther King Jr. and now it's done." It was the same for us. "Apartheid was bad. Nelson Mandela was freed. Let's move on. — Trevor Noah

When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet. — Anna Chlumsky

It's okay,' he says, eyes closed. He's not even awake. 'It's okay.'
He says these words even in his sleep, like he has said them so often that it's his mouth's default sentiment. All this pain in his life, all this care he doles out to everyone else. And yet he still cracks his broken heart open even wider - wide enough to fit me, too. I wonder how much this must hurt him, the toll it just take to give more of himself to me when he already has so little left to give.
In slumber, his arm stays wrapped around me, encasing me for safekeeping. He would protect me even in his unconscious state, as we lie beneath my ceiling's half-painted sky.
This thought is enough to swell my heart - to swell, and to break. — Emery Lord

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough. — Colum McCann

The first key to happiness, is to forgive. — Andrew Trinh

I guess I feel like grief is this huge part of everything," I say in a burst. "But you're supposed to act like it's not. — Meg Wolitzer

A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, How to Build a Boat. — Stephen Wright

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! — Audrey Hepburn

Standing in the shadow of the most prodigious political and fund-raising apparatus the Democratic Party had ever seen, [Biden] felt like a stranger to it, as if he'd walked into an opulent wedding where he knew no one. — Mark Halperin

As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with. — Roy Thomson

BY THE HUNDREDS, blacks cleared out of Groveland on the backs of citrus trucks. Others took blankets, food, and water and fled with their children into the pine leaf forests, surer than rumor that the Ku Klux Klan would be coming from all directions to burn down Stuckey Still, the black enclave west of Groveland. — Gilbert King

To write is to release the soul. So write. What right have we to leave a thing of such beauty bottled within ourselves? — Brian A. McBride