William Deane Quotes
Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around.
Quotes to Explore
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Racism is a physical experience.
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.
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A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.
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Our duty is to be patient.
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Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.
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You'll be loved you'll be loved Like you never have known The memories of me Will seem more like bad dreams Just a series of blurs Like I never occurred Someday you will be loved
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My earliest memories of holidays are from when I was about eight. We lived in Pennsylvania, and every year we'd visit Miami.
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Racism springs from ignorance.
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Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.
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My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.
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I feel like racism's more pronounced in America.
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One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.
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I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.
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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.
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There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to become involved.
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Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around.
