
“I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.”
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“I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.”
“I can answer you in two words: im-possible!”
Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 40.
Misattributed
Source: 1900s, Our National Parks (1901), chapter 1: The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West
“What is the chance that one can roll up the sky like a hide?”
The Secrets of Ishbar (1996)
God Is An Iron (1977)
Context: Call it… joy. The thing like pleasure that you feel when you've done a good thing or passed up a real tempting chance to do a bad thing. Or when the unfolding of the universe just seems especially apt. It's nowhere near as flashy and intense as pleasure can be. Believe me! But it's got something going for it. Something that can make you do without pleasure, or even accept a lot of pain, to get it.
1980s–1990s
Source: Paul Anthony Samuelson, Kate Crowley (1986), The Collected Scientific Papers, Volume 5, p. 561