"My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions."

-- Pam Grier

#Race Quotes #My Family Quotes

“Our strengths are not many. Our weaknesses are a lot.”
“How can someone say they're successful if they're not happy doing their work?”

Source : "Job Satisfaction vs. a Big Paycheck" by Phyllis Korkki, www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2010.
“As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.”
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe oneâ€™s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
“Look...it's empty...as empty as a politician's promise!”
“I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there and make this a record for mass consumption, this was really just a way for me to get out of my own situation and reclaim that part of myself - so when making the songs, I wanted a testament to what I'd gone through, I wanted a snapshot of those moments.”
“There are no fixed points in space,”

Source : Merce Cunningham, Jacqueline Lesschaeve (1985). “The Dancer and the Dance”, Marion Boyars
“Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.”

Source : 1965 Bygones.

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