“Dead Man’s Shoes”, p. 143, quoting Elizabeth David
The Ivory and the Horn (1996)
“You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.”
“Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.”
Apology for Smectymnuus (1642), section VIII
Source: An apology for Smectymnuus with the reason of church-government by John Milton ...
Context: So little care they of beasts to make them men, that by their sorcerous doctrine of formalities, they take the way to transform them out of Christian men into judaizing beasts. Had they but taught the land, or suffered it to be taught, as Christ would it should have been in all plenteous dispensation of the word, then the poor mechanic might have so accustomed his ear to good teaching, as to have discerned between faithful teachers and false. But now, with a most inhuman cruelty, they who have put out the people’s eyes, reproach them of their blindness; just as the Pharisees their true fathers were wont, who could not endure that the people should be thought competent judges of Christ’s doctrine, although we know they judged far better than those great rabbis: yet “this people,” said they, “that know not the law is accursed.”
On <i>The Charlie Rose Show</i> giving his opinion of the media's coverage of the Rwanda Crisis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWNS4MkSpYE
“Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.”
"Wear Sunscreen" (1997)
On families not always being a bedrock of support in “Migrant State of Mind: A Q&A With Novelist Laila Lalami” https://www.thenation.com/article/laila-lalami-interview-the-other-americans/ in The Nation (2019 Apr 23)
On race and the music industry, 24 Hours of Love MTV2 Special (21 September 2005)
1996–2005
