#cana

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#amsterdam #canals #city #conditions #dutch

We’re afraid the others will think we’re agringadas because we don’t speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying to be “real” Chicanas, to speak like Chicanos. There is no one Chicano language just as there is no one Chicano experience. ↗

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

#chicano #chicanos #identity #internalized-racism #experience

I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#canada #disagree #evil #france #great

I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#america #between #british #canada #choose

We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart. ↗

— Romeo LeBlanc

#attitudes #become #canada #centuries #debt

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell. ↗

— Irving Layton

#canadians #consider #dante #down #hell

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. ↗

— Irving Layton

#canada #elliott #last #leader #pierre

Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. ↗

— Jack Layton

#country #great #great country #hopes #world

To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope. ↗

— Jack Layton

#cancer #defeat #discouraged #gone #had

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#canadian #childhood #confront #corpse #like