Esai Morales Quotes
We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent.
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I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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I have to live up to the love I am receiving.
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As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.
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I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
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I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.
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Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.
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I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.
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I definitely have a lot of ambition.
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The time for me in the Peace Corps was easily the most formative experience I've had in my life.
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I'm incredibly anal about everything that I do.
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I don't have a problem with enthusiasm.
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Politics is an instrument that can transform society.
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Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you.
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Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.
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My nation faces a fundamental challenge - survival. The regime is more threatened than ever before. My forefathers had it easy. The Great Leader, my grandfather, ruled with the support of the world's other superpower at the time, the Soviet Union, as well as our China. But today, the Soviet Union is history and China has become more integrated with the Western system. And the United States seeks regime change in my country. And yet, we have survived with our ideology and system intact. How? Because we have built a protection for ourselves in the form of nuclear weapons.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory and a connection that sweeps her out of herself, out of her consciousness, so that nothing has a name, not in Latin, not in English, not in any known language.
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We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent.
