What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.arguing for the abolition of welfare

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

Toni Morrison

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

Sylvia Plath

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Robertson Davies

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you argue with a woman and win, you lose.

Source Unknown

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

Paul Krugman

Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women?

Margaret Mead

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

Sarah Jessica Parker