"When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?"

-- Mavis Leno

#Father Quotes #Believe Quotes #Merit Quotes

“You've got to invite Native Americans to the table, and Asians, and Chicanos. You cannot keep us in the back room anymore and give us notations on paper saying this is what you deserve. You have to invite us to the table because America is ours, too.”

Source : Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.
“Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.”
“The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .”
“I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.”
“You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.”
“Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.”
“When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square ... I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.”
“Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.”

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