"I find it difficult to say I'm black first and a woman second or vice versa. I can't make that kind of distinction. Amongst Aboriginal women I do my best to raise their consciousness both as women and as Aboriginals."

-- Pat O'Shane

#Women Quotes #Black Quotes #Vices Quotes

“No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mick Fleetwood from Sep 08, 2014
“I don't think I have enough of an interest in today's cultural mood to connect with or reject it. I'm compelled by the ideas that arrive when I'm not trying, and I follow them through almost every time. I feel fortunate that these days, there are a lot of them. You could argue that they are informed by everything I'm experiencing culturally around me but I don't, for example, look online for new music or art very often, and I don't think there is much in contemporary culture for me. It's a needle in a haystack kind of thing, and I'd rather spend that time working on a new song.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“I find it extraordinary that I'm being told I can't trust you the voter to get a government in to protect workers rights and that we need Brussels to defend you, the euro is a broken project we are going to pay, no you are going to pay out of your taxes one bailout out of another and the European union does not protect your jobs.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”
“There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see.”

Source : "Director Henry Selick Comic-Con Interview – Talks CORALINE and Next Project". Collider Interview, collider.com. July 25, 2009.
“If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.”

Source : Wassily Kandinsky, Kenneth Clement Lindsay, Peter Vergo (1994). “Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art”
“I think it is really important to put out what you want so the world knows what to give you.”

Source : "Ester Dean’s EGOT Future". Interview with Elizabeth Banks, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2015.

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