"By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America."

-- James H. Douglas

#America Quotes #Community Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture...it's gotta be good.”
“Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.”
“It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.”

Source : Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon (1910). “The Biography of a Boy”
“I have often noticed that the need for cash and the production of a masterpiece just don't coincide with me. Money will hit me at a big off-period and genius will hit me in starvation, that is, I often get the money when I don't think I deserve it and have been lolling around for days and days thinking the most abysmal thoughts.”

Source : Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann
“Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.”
“Never forget those who believed in you. They are why you are where you are.”
“Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance.”
“Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madnessâ€”she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.”

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