"Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility."

-- Nicole Ari Parker

#Responsibility Quotes #Black Quotes #Black Women Quotes

“Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.”
“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”

Source : Notebooks "Life" (1912)
“To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.”
“I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping. All I was doing was cocaine. I stayed awake for about two weeks, locked in my bedroom. I went down from a 142 pounds to 110 pounds.”
“I don't think I'm great at acting. I think I'm great at directing.”
“I've exceeded a few of my goals, but I'm behind on a couple of others.”
“May we be enlightened by a ray of the light that comes from Bethlehem, the light of He who is 'The Greatest' and made himself small.”
“The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the willing suspension of disbelief, the feeling that, within the circle, or in the presence of the magical shrine, anything may happen.”

Source : Doreen Valiente (2018). “An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present”, p.372, The Crowood Press

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