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Quotes About Conflict

am so angry at you right now.
~ Zadie Smith
Race. Land. Ownership. Faith. Theft. Blood. And more blood. And more. And
~ Zadie Smith
She was never home. Irie was stuck between a rock and a hard place, like Ireland, like Israel, like India.
~ Zadie Smith
So now I started playing hardball; now I picked the Dictaphone up and demanded to know about the shrapnel, for Harvey has some shrapnel in his groin, I know he does, and he knows I know. A doctor found it in a routine X-ray in 1991, forty-seven years after Harvey thought it had been removed. I was sixteen at the time, EMF had a hit with "Unbelievable" and I was wearing harem pants. If
~ Zadie Smith
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
~ Zainab Salbi
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitiate, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
~ Zane
Jane smothered the glow and burn within her, ashamed of a passion for freedom that opposed her duty.
~ Zane Grey
Aboot the gold Syvertsen stole
~ Zane Grey
Peg, are you goin' to throw me down, too?" "Mr. Arthurs! I—I—
~ Zane Grey
But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
It looked so quiet and peaceful around. But the stillness was the sleep of swords.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Aw, git reconciled!.. You can't git her wid no fish sandwich.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
She hated the old woman who had twisted her so in the name of love. Most humans didn't love one another nohow, and this mislove was so strong that even common blood couldn't overcome it all the time.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Hurston embodied a more or less harmonious but nevertheless problematic unity of opposites.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
But stillness was the sleep of swords.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
the fiend from hell specially sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Papa used to shake his head at this and say, "What's de use of me taking my fist to a poor weakly thing like a woman? Anyhow, you got to submit yourself to 'em, so there ain't no use in beating on 'em and then have to go back and beg 'em pardon.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
They fought and somehow he managed to bite Tea Cake high up on his cheek-bone once.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
While these characters split along the lines of gender in their thinking about masculinity, "Spunk" presents conflicting views held by the men within the Eatonville community.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
If dat wuz mah wife, said Walter Thomas, Ah'd kill her cemetery dead.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
When you go to a club abroad and play against one from your own country, you are part of the enemy.
~ Didier Deschamps
War is an abstraction.
~ Bruce Jackson
I accept there are people out there who don't like me. I don't like them.
~ Salman Rushdie
Violence is totally accepted in this country.
~ Jay Chandrasekhar