"I'm really suspicious of anybody who comes in and says, this is your identity now, or this is your belief system, and now that you have this, everything's going to be great."

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Source : "Mat Johnson On 'Loving Day' And Life As A 'Black Boy' Who Looks White". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

Mat Johnson

#Identity Quotes #Belief Quotes #Belief Systems Quotes

“We need to start work with the idea that we're going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.”

Source : "ICICI’s Chanda Kochhar: ‘Whenever There’s a Challenge, I See an Opportunity’". Interview with Michael Useem, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. February 6, 2008.
“Trust me, sunscreen is so, so, so important and so I always wear sunscreen, but I still get really tan.”
“She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.”
“Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.”
“Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.”
“When I was fifteen I believed that sex was nearly the same thing as softball.”
“I had no trouble communicating, the player's just didn't like what I had to say.”
“The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.”

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

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