#pa

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#american #committed #continue #country #equality

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#engagement #express #feel #i #i feel

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#famous #independent #intensity #like #love

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #future #lost #neglects #past

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. ↗

— Sophocles

#life #love #one word #pain #us

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. ↗

— Sophocles

#happiness #part #supreme

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. ↗

— Sophocles

#general #good #good news #impart #merit

Despair often breeds disease. ↗

— Sophocles

#despair #disease #often

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape? ↗

— Marilyn French

#escape #ever #like #nothing #parts

Old age and the passage of time teach all things. ↗

— Sophocles

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