"If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it."

-- Alvin Ailey

#Racism Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes #World Quotes

“What you need is an idea.”
“By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.”
“Sad memories often contain an element of nostalgia.”
“You grow the fastest by getting... adopting ideas and technologies from other cultures. And that has been proven in history, time and time again. Whether you go back to the ancient Persians, or the Romans, or the Ottomans. It's how a culture grows, by incorporating other ideas and going, wow, how did they do this? Oh, I bet you this works with this, and then you can improve it again. So I think any culture that sort of says, no no no, it's just us, nobody gets in anymore, it's the beginning of atrophy, and the rest of the world will just pass you.”
“Great is bookishness and the charm of books.”

Source : "In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays". Book by Augustine Birrell, 1905.
“There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.”
“When Martina is tense it helps her relax.”
“I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.”

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