Yakutia Siberia Quotes & Sayings

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. — Linda Chavez

It is a terrible thing when it is the substitute that is sent to find a new life, a sign that a person yearns for change but cannot imagine creating it herself....
If scapegoats feel pain, it is only the delegated pain of their originals. — Shelley Jackson

Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good. — P. J. O'Rourke

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. — Marian Wright Edelman

In school, I was an underachiever. — Henry Winkler

Food from the platter / Water from the rain / The subject and the matter / I'm going home again / Can't sell a leaf to a tree / Nor the wind to the atmosphere / I know where I am meant to be / And I can't be satisfied here — Lemn Sissay

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years. — Ray Bradbury

Anyone who looked more white folkish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore it was right that they should be cruel to her at times, just as she was cruel to those more negroid than herself in direct ratio to their negroness ... Like the pecking order in a chicken yard ... Once having set up her idols and built altars to them it was inevitable that she would worship there. — Zora Neale Hurston

Undertown. You maybe don't remember it. Your clothes don't smell of it. Of the filth, the rot. The stinking hell of vapor and grime. The warren of hovels and the millions of us starving in them, defending whatever pathetic collection of things we call 'ours' - sometimes to the death, yet still doing little more than waiting to die. — Julio Alexi Genao

I watch a lot of TV, and I'd like to think what I watch is good TV. — Scott Porter

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky. — Henry Ward Beecher

The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are. — Neale Donald Walsch

We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion or work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. (22) — Karen Armstrong

I'm the most unromantic lump of Northern suet. Yes, a woman did accost me once in South Shields, but she had a face like Red Rum. — Les Dawson