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I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did. ↗

— Charlie Daniels

#asked #been #bob #columbia #come

I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard. ↗

— Allen West

#changing #conservatives #heard #i #i think

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#birth #birth control #boy #control #me

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#draw #men #most #things #told

I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time. ↗

— Brittany Daniel

#forgot #how #i #important #know

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. ↗

— Samuel Daniel

#best #cutting #full #grows #love

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life. ↗

— Anthony Daniels

#lot #made #our #seem #suffer

A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music. ↗

— Charlie Daniels

#came #chords #crazy #day #friend

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#freedom #hated #loved #never #who

Can I tell my daughter that I loved her father? This was the man who rubbed my feet at night. He praised the food that I cooked. He cried honestly when I brought out trinkets I had saved for the right day, the day he gave me my daughter, a tiger girl. How could I not love this man? But it was a love of a ghost. Arms that encircled but did not touch. A bowl full of rice but without my appetite to eat it. No hunger. No fullness. Now Saint is a ghost. He and I can now love equally. He knows the things I have been hiding all these years. Now I must tell my daughter everything. That she is a daughter of a ghost. She has no chi . This is my greatest shame. How can I leave this world without leaving her my spirit? So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. The pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is a way a mother loves her daughter. I hear my daughter speaking to her husband downstairs. They say words that mean nothing. They sit in a room with no life in it. I know a thing before it happens. She will hear the table and vase crashing on the floor. She will come upstairs and into my room. Her eyes will see nothing in the darkness, where I am waiting between the trees. ↗

— Amy Tan

#love #mother #equality