"That's one of the beauties, I think, of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It literally destroyed millions, but it didn't destroy everybody and it didn't destroy the inner lives of all the people who experienced it."

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John Edgar Wideman

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #African American Quotes

“None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.”
“You don't ask nobody to give what they can't give, or be what they can't be. You've learnt that, you got a headstart on heartbreak.”
“Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that have come his way have probably been so described by their authors.”
“The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.”
“In 1980, Osho left India for America. I, like many other sannyasins, moved to Oregon where work had begun on the 'new commune'. Osho named it Rajneeshpuram.”
“I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.”
“I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I found that I could find the energy ... that I could find the determination to keep on going. I learned that your mind can amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself, I can do it ... I can do it ... I can do it!”

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