Wanda Coleman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they made perfect sense.
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usta be young usta be gifted - still black.
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Sleep deficit and an anemic pocketbook dictate my erratic lifestyle.
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As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life.
-- Wanda Coleman
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Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned.
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I just graduated from high school, and I was working at Blockbuster. Not only did I get into movies while I was there, but I was putting away boxes and looking at the kids on the covers. It felt like windows into these seemingly perfect lives.
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When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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I had an amazing childhood.
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One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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Shahid Kapoor is my childhood crush
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Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
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Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
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