"I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes."

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Source : Sonia Sanchez (2010). “I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t and Other Plays”, p.17, Duke University Press

Sonia Sanchez

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“If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to his body, but a child had a tenuous relationship to his own permanence, and thus, his own shadow.”

Source : Anne Ursu, Eric Fortune (2007). “The Shadow Thieves”, p.167, Simon and Schuster
“The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft.”
“Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.”
“If people can understand the Lord's message in Bhagavad-gita, they can become truly happy.”
“To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of realization remains, and this no trace continues endlessly.”
“I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street.”
“I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.”
“According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent on food, clothing, housing, and transportation combined. Compare this to the plight of medieval serfs. They only had to give the lord of the manor one-third of their output - and they were considered slaves. So what does that make us?”

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