Windrush Day Quotes

#1. Light-headed, my body trembling from shoes to shoulders in random spells, like I swallowed a vibrator. It's always like this when I'm on the sauce. I dosed six hours ago.

David Wong

#2. I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

Clarence Thomas

#3. We need that expression. Whether we want to call it protest or not, we need to express and echo the echoes of the people. Artists need to do that.

Jimmy Cliff

#4. Congratulations offer more potential than cash. The amount of available cash is limited, but managers have an unlimited supply of congratulations. It's important to pay people fairly, but managers also should heap on congratulations and feed people's souls.

Ken Blanchard

#5. Those of fire move about the earth with inspiration and purpose. They are creative, and can consume and be consumed by their desires [ ... ] My father-to-be was of the water and could not find a hold in the banks of earthiness. Water people can easily get lost.

Joy Harjo

#6. I don't want to start all over again with someone else who could be even worse once I discover who he really is - it takes years to really figure a person out.

Loretta Lost

#7. We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.

Martin Sheen