"I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience"

-- Bernice Johnson Reagon

#Rights Quotes #People Quotes #Focus Quotes

“I will continue wearing the white hat and black mask until I ride up into the big ranch in the sky.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. February 4, 1985.
“Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.”
“We live in a world that pays attention to speed, volume, and flash. Subtlety has its own power in relation to that.”
“I think for every artist it's important to always keep this amount of doubt until the very last day of shooting.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“When you're in transition, you will need to find a different kind of security. It's not one of labels, guarantees or bank balances. It's guidance - the directions of your own inner voice. Moment by moment you know what to do. You are safer than ever before.”
“The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.”
“I just want people who are qualified, I want them to believe in the Constitution of the United States of America. So yep, I don't have a problem with appointing an openly gay person. Because they're not going to try to put sharia law in our laws.”
“I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same way I would take photographs of a plaster bust.”

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