Allan Dare Pearce Quotes

I believe you get up in the morning and do the best you can.

Are we praying?"

"If you have to ask, you probably aren't.

I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.

People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.

I am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of me are do-nothings. There is racism in the world and they acknowledge it, but they sit in class listening to bullshit professors. Give me a bricklayer with a racist attitude. It is just more honest.

Smile! Make them comfortable with your size. Deal with their fears and your fears will go away.

Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.

Brain, maybe you should take a brief vacation. Take two aspirin and sit on the bench. Someone just smacked a line drive up the middle of the heart.

She placed her hands, one on each of his shoulders, stood on her toes and kissed him on the lips. He waited, enjoying the moment like none before.

My daughter is black and she has to know what it is like to be black. My daughter should know you, Aiken, but she should learn what it means to be black, and you cannot teach her that.

Sometimes you know the answer to a question deep down but you ask the question for some other reason.

Some days in the camp you prayed to live; some days you prayed to die quick. Some days you didn't bother praying, knowing there was no sense to anything.

He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important.

I don't care about legal. Is it wise?

Kids are important. The most important thing.

And he took the slap like a man. No whining. What else do you want from a fella?

Staying home is overrated.

When the city burns down and people are shot dead, people think of a riot.

Three of the revolutions," Bermuda said, "the French, the Russian, and the American, were true only in the beginning. Just true in the beginning, man."

"True?"

"True to the people, you know...Afterwards, they forgot their roots, man, and the revolutions went off the track. They turned into huge bureaucracies and administrations.

We need to bring out the rabble-rousing nature of people. We are gonna need un-repression. We need hundreds of people farting up a storm. We need a big-time, old-fashioned, furious, fart storm.

Does anyone like a fat old cow?"

"Maybe other fat old cows?

Until the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man.

Something girls never understood about poker night. The real point of the card play was to razz. Razzing calls forth unbridled farm-boy humour, earthy by some standards. The best quip involves belittling someone else's penis, or turning it back on the sayer, or both.

If they die, we bury them; if they don't, we won't.

What does it hurt to be sociable?

We need consistency and predictability, and a sense of proper placement. We need these things before we can mold the world into what we know it can be.

Son of a bitch! Even dead people are after my ass today.

Schizophrenia. Always a bitch.

Manners count. Be polite and seek out the common ground, not just the high ground.

Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken, but not to both. You understand.

Surely you can see the failings of the system. Inequality, injustice, unfairness, and exploitation--

Bank robbing is more of a sure thing than farming.

Come meet my dog."

"What's the dog's name?"

"Justice."

"Nice touch for a judge. A dog named Justice.

We are free, but we are not equal. We are free, but not as free as other people in this land are free.

Identifying an issue is halfway to resolving it.

They'll want to kill the crazies first. Big fish eat little fish -- always have, always will.

Everything in life is not a joke."

"No, but it mostly is.

Your repressed feelings desperately try to climb to the surface but fail to do so, and in therapy we seek to reveal -- to uncloak, if you will -- these unconscious desires, the things that your mind tries to repress, those secrets of your soul.

Here is a sermon for you, Reverend: Everything not dead dies. Just like those little fellows scooting around beside that dead mamma goose, little downy fellas who are gonna meet a hungry weasel or vicious farm dog before nightfall, their world stands in chaos, and not of their own doing.

In the eye of my mind, I imagine what the world could be.

Having something forbidden is exciting, don't you agree?

To the extent a man can control chaos, he should put his testicles on the line and do so, but when a man can't, he should just step aside, or someone in the lineup behind him is gonna bite his ass.

A black suit always goes well at a funeral.

This here is Orange Crush, son. It don't get better till you're legal.