"when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#People Quotes #Trouble Quotes #Charming Quotes

“One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.”

Source : Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.9, Harvard University Press
“I donâ€™t think of myself as being a celebrity, itâ€™s too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and itâ€™s getting worse. I canâ€™t tell whether my work is good or not.”

Source : "Lauren London Plays the Game". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. September 3, 2013.
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
“One cannot walk into an April day in a negative way. With spring, each man's plans and hopes result in new efforts, fresh actions. All of which has a mighty important bearing on the economy. There are those of us who think that the psychology of man, each and together, has more impact on markets, business, services and building and all the fabric of an economy than all the more measurable statistical indices.”
“Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life. That's the hope, anyway.”
“Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the decolonizing, anti-racist process.”
“I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.”

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