Claude Brown quotes

“I didn't know anything until December 2004 when I went to purchase a vehicle and was told there was a foreclosure on my credit and I wouldn't be able to get the car. I've still got a red flag on my credit.”
-- Claude Brown

#Car Quotes #Flags Quotes #Credit Quotes

“Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.”
-- Claude Brown

Source : Claude Brown, Nathan McCall (2012). “Manchild in the Promised Land”, p.394, Simon and Schuster

#Thinking Quotes #Our Generation Quotes #Generations Quotes

“For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?”
-- Claude Brown

Source : Manchild in the Promised Land foreword (1965)

#Running Quotes #Land Quotes #Doe Quotes

“The language of soul. . . possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless and relentlessly driving rhythm that flows from poignantly spent ideas.”
-- Claude Brown

#Ideas Quotes #Soul Quotes #Quality Quotes

“I really like listening to music in my car.”

Source : "Rebecca Romijn's Recipes for Success". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.health.com. July 25, 2012.

“Sometimes I sing along in the car, if something good is playing like Marvin Gaye.”

“He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.”

“There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.”

“Why worship a flag or a God, when we can worship that which is best in us: our will to be great.”

“We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige”

“The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.”

“For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.”

Source : Bret Harte (1914). “The Writings of Bret Harte”

“Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.”

Source : Letter from his cell at the Allenwood Federal Penitentiary to Stephen Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, November 2000; cited on the FAS website. Ames, you see, was not at fault; it was those who trusted him.

“So, your dad's hot." "Thanks. He was that way when I met him, so I can't really take credit.”