"I mean, a lot of people don't realize it, but fashion is one of the most racial industries left out there now. Radio and music aren't. Television and movies aren't. Even commercials now are showing interracial couples. You see a lot of diversity in TV shows, but you don't see that in fashion. You think there would be some, because the consumer is of all colors and all shades. But you don't see that in fashion."

Source : "Tyson Beckford on Modeling, Zoolander, and Racism in the Fashion Industry". Interview with Jonathan Evans, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2014.

Tyson Beckford

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“We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it's somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.”

Source : Colleen Hoover (2014). “Maybe Someday”, p.291, Simon and Schuster
“It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable”

Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.529, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.”
“I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don't live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine.”
“Dear young people, the happiness you are seeking, the happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist. Only he gives the fullness of life to humanity! With Mary, say your own "yes" to God, for he wishes to give himself to you.”
“No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.”

Source : Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Benjamin Rudyerd (capt.) (1841). “Memoirs of Sir Benjamin Rudyerd: Containing His Speeches and Poems. To which are Added the Letters of His Great-great-grandson Benjamin Rudyerd”, p.130
“My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.”
“All life on earth emanates from the green of the plant”

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