"I love, therefore I am vulnerable."

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Source : Alan AtKisson (1999). “Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist's World”, Chelsea Green Publishing Company

Madeleine L'Engle

#Vulnerable Quotes

“We're at an interesting phase of Asian and Asian-American writing, where we might succeed in having readers look at us as creative individuals who write with fury and fire about the world, and in new ways, without having them say things like "I read a really good Indian book," or "That Malaysian fellow writes very well." So I hope by identifying as Indian I can get people who don't usually read "ethnic" or "Indian" literature to read that literature and enjoy it.”
“there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere.”
“You have to build up a credibility before the support comes to you.”
“In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.”
“Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.”
“The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.”
“Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.”
“Beginnings are easy, the thing is to finish the race”

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