Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer
"Black Matters" in Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992)
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer
"Black Matters" in Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992)
“It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Great Place
Essays (1625)
“Anything big and strange always upsets the people in power.”
Robert Silverberg (1935) American speculative fiction writer and editor
Source: Short fiction, Thomas the Proclaimer (1972), Chapter 6, “The Woman Who Is Sore at Heart Reproaches Thomas” (p. 91)
“There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.”
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
Argument on the murder of Captain White (1830)
“What, like with a cloth or something?”
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
When asked about wiping her email server ( YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwRYkerVcrE), 18 August 2016. Quoted in "Firm That Wiped Hillary’s Server Brags: We ‘Stifled Investigation Of Hillary Clinton’" http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/26/firm-wiped-hillarys-server-brags-stifled-investigation-hillary-clinton/ by Bre Payton, The Federalist (26 August 2016). <br class="br">Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016)
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses
Source: All the Pretty Horses