#alternative

Take your place, then. Look at what happened from every side and consider all the other ways it could have gone. Consider, even, an Africa unconquered altogether. Imagine those first Portuguese adventurers approaching the shore, spying on the jungle’s edge through their fitted brass lenses. Imagine that by some miracle of dread or reverence they lowered their spyglasses, turned, set their riggings, sailed on. Imagine all who came after doing the same. What would that Africa be now? All I can think of is the other okapi, the one they used to believe in. A unicorn that could look you in the eye. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#alternative-histories #freedom #freedom

Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause im telling you the truth I mean this im okay Trust me... Im not okay ...Well okay im not okay. Im not o-f cking-kay ↗

— Gerard Way

#emo #im-not-okay #mcr #music #my-chemical-romance

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#advantage #alternatives #always #between #bring

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#always #cobain #embodiment #great #guitar

I'm one who demands a lot from people. I'm not afraid to look at alternative ways in city government. That's what I've done in my two years and will continue to do in the next four. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#alternative #city #city government #continue #demands

I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid. ↗

— Mario Vazquez

#amp #hip-hop #i #i love #jazz

For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#been #black #black community #claimed #community

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers. ↗

— Jim Woodring

#book #cartoonists #comic #comic book #get

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#down #facing #going #graves #manufacturers

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year. ↗

— Howard Stringer

#company #did #free #last #last year