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book
I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies. Carole Bouquet
book reading moving
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. Carol Shields
book writing want
Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
book shoes marketing
What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information? Carol White
book heart telephones
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved. Carlos Drummond de Andrade
book writing
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. Carlos Fuentes
book reality thinking
For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.
book wife reason
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
book past years
Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.
native-american men thinking
Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years. Carlos Mencia
native-american men rocks
Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota. Dave Barry
native-american land people
The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history of the Native Americans was rendered invisible. The land could only be occupied if it was first defined as empty. So it was defined as a wilderness, even though it had been used by native people for millennia. Vandana Shiva
native-american roots issues
When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was a preservationist ecology movement created by an occupying culture. Clearly, a wilderness movement started by Native Americans would not have had the same roots.
native-american gun steel
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel? Jared Diamond
native-american epidemics giving
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.
native-american people earth
Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Chief Seattle
native-american heart earth
Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.
native-american web-of-life earth-day
All things are bound together. All things connect.
black-history elements language
… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element… Derek Walcott
black-history black
I do consider myself part of black history. Mary J. Blige
black-history black depends
I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself. Ethel Waters
black-history black want
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. Sojourner Truth
black-history patriotism tears
Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around. Ralph Abernathy
black-history glory achieve
The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed. Jesse Jackson
black-history black-racism want
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. Morgan Freeman
black-history progress months
They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it. Rush Limbaugh
black-history complaining complaints
There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints. Rita Dove