Yami Sukehiro Quotes & Sayings

The vogue of the New Negro ... had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had to be "sold" to the public in terms they could understand. — Nathan Huggins

We have then, in the first part of The Faerie Queene, four of the seven deadly sins depicted in the more important passages of the four several books; those sins being much more elaborately and powerfully represented than the virtues, which are opposed to them, and which are personified in the titular heroes of the respective books. The alteration which made these personified virtues the centre each of a book was probably part of the reconstruction on the basis of Aristotle Ethics.
The nature of the debt to Aristotle suggests that Spenser did not borrow directly from the Greek, but by way of modern translations. — Janet Spens

Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid. — Yul Vazquez

My earliest memories are of watching 'Star Trek' and 'MASH' while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through. — Mohsin Hamid

And when you grow up one day," her mother would always add, "you might be lucky enough to be shot by someone you love. — Carolyn Cohagan

Tales; Kim had heard them all, several times over. They were nothing he hadn't heard before when Onghwe had set up his Circus in other cities. He started to walk toward — Neal Stephenson

No one ever tells you that: that there's no method. Writing's a lawless place. — Naomi Wood

The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off. — Dane Cook