"Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Tessanne Chin

#Jamaica Quotes #Issues Quotes #Race Quotes

“I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground.”
“Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.”
“A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.”
“Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it all out. So we usually try to stand up to dictators like, well, we won't mention names.”
“Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum.”
“a bride who is bullied by her mother-in-law will herself become a bad mother-in-law.”

Source : "The Story of Spin" by Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, translated by Takeshi Oka, University of Chicago Press, (p. 217), 1997.
“After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.”
“Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day.”

Source : Stevie Smith (2015). “Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith”, p.707, Faber & Faber

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