"I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Aja Naomi King

#Lovely Quotes #Safe Quotes #Grew Up Quotes

“Are there not hours of an immortal birth,â€” Bright visitations from a purer sphere, That cannot live in language? Is there not A mood of glory, when the mind attuned To heaven, can out of dreams create her worlds?â€””
“I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.”
“I've won at every level, except college and pro.”
“If we stop for a moment, it is possible to perceive a pattern in our lives; the motivators that have influenced us become more obvious. We are able to see life unfolding from BOTH ENDS AT ONCE, coming into the present moment. But until we have got to a certain point of realization, this is not possible, because everything is still seen as a series of apparent causes and effects.”
“When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.”

Source : "At 90, Fashion’s Latest Pop Star". Interview with Ruth La Ferla, www.nytimes.com. August 23, 2011.
“Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.”
“I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.”

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