"One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues."

-- Toni Cade Bambara

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“Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun. You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own.”
“Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.”
“We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.”
“For me, I feel like I relate to a lot of people.”
“Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified flying objects - UFO's. As a consequence of my work on the voluminous air force files and, to a greater extent, of personal investigation of many puzzling cases and interviews with witnesses of good repute, I have long been aware that the subject of UFO's could not be dismissed as mere nonsense.”
“I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.”
“When everything is good, maybe I think itâ€™s the time to do something else.”

Source : "Carine Roitfeld steps down as editor of French Vogue after 10 years" by Helen Pidd, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.
“Illegibility of this world. All things twice over. The strong clocks justify the splitting hour, hoarsely. You , clamped into your deepest part, climb out of yourself for ever.”

Source : Paul Celan (1972). “Selected poems”, Penguin Books Ltd

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