21 quotes found
“Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity.”
“Everyone loves a girl who can rise to a crisis.”
“Are we praying?" "If you have to ask, you probably aren't.”
“I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them.”
“Do a lot of questions mean you are really smart or really dumb?”
“You can't say asses in church unless you are speaking of donkeys.”
“He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important.”
“To the extent a man can control chaos, he should put his testicles on the line and do so, but when a man can't, he should just step aside, or someone in the lineup behind him is gonna bite his ass.”
“My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.”
“She placed her hands, one on each of his shoulders, stood on her toes and kissed him on the lips. He waited, enjoying the moment like none before.”
“I am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of me are do-nothings. There is racism in the world and they acknowledge it, but they sit in class l...”
“I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.”
“We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free.”
“But, ladies and gentlemen, we will also be asked to make sacrifices in matters that are not our affair and that do not concern us, sacrifices that would leave our people bleeding or wounded, or eve...”
“Until the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man.”
“Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.”
“Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered position on anything important?”
“Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken, but not to both. You understand.”
“There is, you will concede, a limit to the niceties a man is obliged to fulfill when his wife is dead and not yet cold.”
“When you reach voting age, we will take your opinion under consideration.”
