"If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'"

-- Kara Walker

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“That air. The air afterwards. I wanted to breathe it in. It felt right to breathe it in. Because we were breathing them in, weren't we? And the building. We were breathing it all in. And I thought, there's a part of this that's actually a part of me now. I now have that responsibility. I am alive, and I am breathing, and I can do the things this dust can't do.”
“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”

Source : "Nightwood" by Djuna Barnes, (Ch. 6), 1936.
“With President Obama, there's a feeling that he gets it. He has women in his life. He knows that our health care is important, that it's important able to get access to the care that we need when we need it. That's what translates. Women hear that when they hear him speak about these issues. He will be a champion and will defend us when we need it.”

Source : "An Interview with DNC Speaker Sandra Fluke". Interview with Sarah Kliff, www.goodreads.com.
“The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.”

Source : "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
“I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.”
“I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.”
“We can give without loving, but we can't love without giving. In fact, love is nothing unless we give it to someone.”
“The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.”

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