Lev Kravchenko Quotes & Sayings

People, her people at least, were always chasing shattered hopes. A father gazing down on dead soil, with a brood of hollow-cheeked children sitting around a barren table. A lonely maid cleaning grates and waiting for a lover who by now wouldn't even recall her name. A weary labourer trudging miles between the hiring fairs, carrying his spade, clothes soiled from sleeping in damp fields. They held candles to storms, her people. They saw their lights extinguished as cruel winds of fate blew. — Paul Reid

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others. — Laozi

Fine, but if and when the zombies team up with the mummies to take over the world, you can't live in my underground bunker. — Emily Cale

Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race. — Michelle Alexander

I have always been much cleverer in retrospect. — Jaida Jones

Get close to grass and you'll see a star. — Dejan Stojanovic

He was hungering for the fight they had never had. The one she owed him, but could never give him. — Sonali Dev