"I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be at once at home and away from home at the same time. It is inevitable that my perspective will be international."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Kwame Dawes

#Home Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Black Quotes

“I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (2004). “The Prophets of Israel: and their place in history to the close of the Eighth Century B.C.”, p.20, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Receptivity is the first requisite of the disciple, and of anyone who wants to learn anything. We can be anything else we like: we can be wicked, we can be stupid, we can be full of faults, we can backslide. In a sense, it doesnâ€™t matter. But we must be spiritually receptive; we have to be willing and ready to learn. When we know that we do not know, everything is possible.”
“I don't like zombie movies, they're just plain silly.”
“This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.”
“When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.”
“I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.”
“Family rules? We only have one rule in our house, and that's 'Don't Be Annoying'”

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