The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

~ Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou 1969 Inspirational

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

~ Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera 1969 20Th Century Literature Bliss Certainty Cynicism Czech Literature Death Death And Dying Endings Gallows Humor Gifts Sleep

Open confession of dictatorship is far less dangerous than sham democracy. One can defend oneself against the former, the latter is like a creeper attached to the body of a drowning man.

~ Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich 1969 Authoritarianism Democracy Dictatorship Soviet Russia Totalitarianism

Race theorists, who are as old as imperialism itself, want to achieve racial purity in peoples whose interbreeding, as a result of the expansion of world economy, is so far advanced that racial purity can have meaning only to a numbskull.

~ Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich 1969 Antisemitism Ethnic Nationalism Fascism Globalization Imperialist Interbreed Miscegenation Multiculturalism Nazism Race Theory Racial Purity Racism White Supremacy

Why isn't the manuscript ready? Because every book is more work than anyone intended. If authors and editors knew, or acknowledged, how much work was ahead, fewer contracts would be signed. Each book, before the contract, is beautiful to contemplate. By the middle of the writing, the book has become, for the author, a hate object. For the editor, in the middle of editing, it has become a two-ton concrete necklace. However, both author and editor will recover the gleam in their eyes when the work is completed, and see the book as the masterwork it really is.

~ Samuel S. Vaughan

Samuel S. Vaughan 1969 Editing Iao Formula Writing Writing Process

In the Awakenings movie I found it very interesting that the most profound awakenings in the catatonic patients occurred in 1969, the year that the Aurora Borealis was seen from N.Y. to Louisiana. It seems the patients were getting environmental radiation stimulation in addition to their L-Dopa drug that year. L-Dopa plus radiation therapy may eventually be proven to be a very potent brain stimulant.

~ Steven Magee

Steven Magee 1969 Addition Aurora Awakenings Borealis Brain Catatonic Drug Environmental Interesting L Dopa Louisiana Movie New Ny Patients Potent Profound Radiation Stimulant Stimulation Therapy Year York

You’re drunk. They’d arrest you on the spot.” “What? There’s no law against driving a car when you’re drunk.” He swayed back and forth while he spoke. “Besides, I’m not drunk.” “Fine, you’re not drunk, but you’ve been drinking and there is a law that says you can’t drive when you’re drunk. It’s called driving while intoxicated or driving under the influence or something like that. I’ll drive.” “Hmmm… Never heard of it. Okay- you drive.

~ Ian Mcclellan

Ian Mcclellan 1960S 1969 Drunk Driving Fetish Porn Zombie Apocalypse Zombies