Quotations
1.“There is something called Black in America, and there is something called White in America, and I know them when I see them, but I will forever be unable to explain the meaning of them, because they are not real, even though they have a very real place in my daily way of seeing, a fundamental relationship to my ever-evolving understanding of history and a critical place in my relationship to humanity.”
2."What we (the oppressed) have been working with as an identity is actually born out of a dream. Our subscription to this dream is our ignorance of the reality of human existence."
3. "There comes a time in your life, when you discover an emptiness. You have no thought of yourself as empty— You have no thought of yourself as empty and you have been operating as if you were not, but a day comes when you are made aware of it—your emptiness… And you yearn to be full. The pain of discovering this emptiness is unequaled by anything, except the pain of this yearning to be full. That is when you begin, for the first time in your life—for the first time with your life– to search for a language, a tongue, a voice, a means of articulation."
4. "We are not taught to retreat. We are taught to advance, to walk forward from the place of our beginning…which makes me all the more curious about the ground behind us, the ground we have not covered."
5."It comforts us to think we were once privy to something that is no more."
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Famous quotes containing the word quotations:
“A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book—it is a plaything.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)
“Reading any collection of a man’s quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won’t go away hungry, but it’s not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
—Christopher Buckley, U.S. author. A review of three books of quotations from Newt Gingrich. “Newtie’s Greatest Hits,” The New York Times Book Review (March 12, 1995)