Thylias Moss famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.
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Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.
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Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion.
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Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.
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One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.
-- Thylias Moss
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
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He considered the Rvolution a victroy for the Jews, which opinion, he said, prevailed on the East Side where rejoicing knew no bounds. We felt, added Mr. Cahan, that this is a great triumph for the Jews' cause. The anti-Jewish element in Russia has always been identified with the anti-revolutionary party. Jews having always sat high in the Councils of the revolutionists, all of our race became inseparably linked with the opponents of the government in the official mind.
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I am consumed with the fear of...
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I am a regular young man surrounded...
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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nonetheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear.
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I layer my moisturizers, which makes my complexion so fresh, I can wear less foundation.
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There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.
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I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
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