Ramalhete De Flores Quotes & Sayings

Moving Mummy of Manchester has — Alan Toner

Through this tradition of face-to-face oral communication, now in danger of disappearing, black folks maintained the conviction of their own worth and saved their own souls by refusing to fall victim to fear or the hatred of their oppressors, which they recognized would have been more destructive to themselves than to their enemies. As the poet Lucille Clifton put it, "Ultimately if you fill yourself with venom you will be poisoned."3 There were incidents of individual violence, usually crimes of passion committed by someone under the influence of alcohol and over a man or a woman. But despite the unimaginable cruelty that they suffered, blacks kept their sense of humor and created the art form of the blues as a way to work through and transcend the harshness of their lives. Living under the American equivalent of Nazism, they developed an oasis of civility in the spiritual desert of "me-firstism" that characterized the rest of the country. — Grace Lee Boggs

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real. — J.K. Rowling

When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows. — Gary Player

My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want. — Booker Little

Sometimes the distance of years - all that was contained within its concertina folds - was a physical ache. — Kate Morton

So it is not fundamentally possible to be alone. Fundamentally, man has to be with other people. If man becomes totally, totally alone, then he is lost. — Peter Hoeg

My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them. — Kanye West

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness — Honore De Balzac

[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society ... — Theophile Gautier