“There is no birthright in the white skin that it shall say that wherever it goes, to any nation, amongst any people, there the people of the country shall give way before it, and those to whom the land belongs shall bow down and become its servants.” PeopleWayGivingCountryNationsWhiteLandRacismSkinsDown AndServantBowsBirthrightWhite PrivilegeWhite Skin Book:Wake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform Source: Wake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform
“If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.” IfsShowsRoomsLandWorstTheaterDown AndMusicalSurroundingsRehearsalRehearsingImagining The Worst Author:Hildegard Knef
“The Revelations is an amazing, rich material that is full of stories about angels and angels being sent down to Earth to wipe out a third of the population. There are angels that come down and wipe out a third of the population and then another angel will come down and wipe out a third of all the animals living in the sea and another angel will come down and wipe out all the vegetation on the land. They are some vengeful individules, in Revelations, the angels. There is a lot of destructive capacity in an angel's being.” StoriesEarthAnimalRichSeaLandMaterialsAngelCapacityThirdsDown AndPopulationRevelationsDestructiveWipeDown To EarthVegetationVengeful Author:Misha Collins
“The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.” IfsWorldWholeEarthLandDown AndWhole WorldPlentyRelaxTunnelsDrainsToiling Author:Will Cuppy
“I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.” WritingIdeasDarkMorningSunGoneLandDown AndGood IdeasDaylight Author:Stephen King
“As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.” WellsMightWaitingLandWindRepublicanDown AndFairyIdle Book:Thomas Davis: Selections from His Prose and Poetry Source: Thomas Davis: Selections from His Prose and Poetry
“Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa, and before that some bunch of curious monkeys. Down and down we go unto the sea, unto the dust, the single cellular dust. What impulse drove one cell to become two? What yearning pulled the fish on to the land? What caused apes to walk upright? Some invisible magnetic pull. Is there a difference between attraction and intention? Where is evolution taking us?” TwoCoursesDifferencesWalksCommonSeaLandEvolutionDown AndIntentionFishesAttractionInvisibleBunchDustCuriousCellsImpulseLinksAncestorYearningMonkeysBackwardsDnaApesMagneticStaircasesCellular Book:Revolution Source: Revolution
“I saw in Chicago, on the street where I was visiting my sister-in-law, this "Urban Renewal" and it means one thing: "Negro removal." But they want to tear the homes down and put a parking lot there. Where are those people going? Where will they go? And as soon as Negroes take to the street demonstrating, one hears people say, "they shouldn't have done it." The world is looking at America and it is really beginning to show up for what it is really like. "Go Tell It on the Mountain." We can no longer ignore this, that America is not "the land of the free and the home of the brave."” PeopleWorldWantMeanDoneShowsHomeAmericaLawSawsOne ThingStreetsLandTearsMountainDown AndBraveChicagoMy SisterUrbanRenewalIn-lawsVisitingParkingRemovalDemonstratingParking LotLand Of The FreeSister In LawUrban Renewal Author:Fannie Lou Hamer