"Power is the ability to achieve purpose."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Purpose Quotes #Achieve Quotes #Ability Quotes

“My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical, ideological.”
“Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.”
“I'm so sick of seeing guns in movies, and all this violence; and if there was going to be violence in Pines, I wanted it to actually be narrative violence. I wasn't interested in fetishizing violence in any way of making it feel cool or slow-motion violence. I wanted it to be just violence that affected the story.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside dying fires in one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved.”

Source : Mildred D. Taylor (2004). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.10, Penguin
“If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.”
“There should be a drama series about women trying to figure out their mystery leg bruises.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 02, 2014
“We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.”
“People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.”

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