"Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and numbed our understanding of our current existence."

-- Waziyatawin

#Memories Quotes #Fog Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.”
“That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.”
“I worked hard, and if you work hard you get the goodies.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Our natural state of being is in relationship, a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic particles that compose us cannot be separated from the space and particles surrounding them, so living beings cannot be isolated from each other... By the act of observation and intention, we have the ability to extend a kind of super-radiance to the world.”
“Those of us who consider ourselves to be somehow involved in the birthing of a new age, should discover Gaia as well. The idea of Gaia may facilitate the task of converting destructive human activities to constructive and cooperative behavior. It is an idea which deeply startles us, and in the process, may help us as a species to make the necessary jump to planetary awareness.”
“I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for even having a comedy category.”

Source : "Golden Globe Awards 2015: 'Boyhood,' 'Budapest' take top film prizes". www.latimes.com. January 11, 2015.
“Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.”

Source : Douglas A. Blackmon (2012). “Slavery by Another Name: The re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to World War Two”, p.381, Icon Books
“If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.”

Source : "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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