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Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. Toni Morrison

People Black Enormous Those Run Complicity City Take Schools Without None Place Victims Who Amount Things Violence

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are. Tove Jansson

Theatre People World Important Dared Could Like Most House Sort Because The Most Important Where Wanted Really Shown

What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarrassment? Walter Kirn

Me Lie People Liar Cause Wish Embarrassment Minimize Out Would Rather Point Like Go Than Just Away

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off. William Golding

I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers. William Golding

Life Love People Own Sense Rulers One Thing Above Examining Invariably Shared Leaders Countries Peril Understand Been Same Common The One Thing Cannot Common Sense Many Found Why Among Thing

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Umberto Eco

Truth World Made Own Believe Harmless Our Though Mad Attempt Had Come Terrible Underlying Whole Enigma Interpret

There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her. Adriana Trigiani

Good Food Day You Heart Good Heart Whatever Enough Cried Earth Say Exactly Exactly What Hurting Born Layer Had No-One Had Enough Knew Were Encouraged Left Goes Childhood Your Who Grow Why Her