"Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity."

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Source : 1989 Tales of Tenderness and Power.

Bessie Head

#Home Quotes #Skins Quotes #Earth Quotes

“My father probably taught me everything I know, aside from dialogue, which I think I get from my mom a lot more. He certainly didn't teach me everything he knew, but you know he has got this book out called "The Spooky Art," which is essentially an advanced book on writing and it's not... You know it's not ABC, but it's for people who feel that bug and know that they're writers and are willing to put in that time alone. Pretty much the vast majority of what he taught me you can find in that book.”
“Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.”

Source : Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”
“Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.”
“For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols”
“Your culture demands that you bring some kind of crisis to your work and therefore you can not bring any unity to it. In order to bring crisis into your work you have to bring it to a state of expectancy. In other words you have to leave your work in the state of mind of being a question.”
“The man i'll never be, Who remembers him?”
“Was it harder to die, or harder to be the one who survived?”
“The objective psychologist, hoping to get at the physiological side of behavior, is apt to plunge immediately into neurology trying to correlate brain activity with modes of experience ... The result in many cases only accentuates the gap between the total experience as studied by the psychologist and neural activity as analyzed by the neurologist.”

Source : Roger Wolcott Sperry, Colwyn B. Trevarthern (1990). “Brain Circuits and Functions of the Mind: Essays in Honor of Roger Wolcott Sperry, Author”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

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