"People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to see things that they cannot see with a casual glance."

-- Dawoud Bey

#People Quotes #Casual Quotes #Glances Quotes

“I had an amazing childhood.”
“I personally feel that I should support people who are doing good work and people should also support such good work.”
“This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either to self-destruct, or [to] seed our cosmos with life. The situation is so unstable that I doubt we can dwell at this fork in the road for more than another hundred years. But if we end up going the life route instead of the death route, then in a distant future our cosmos will be teaming with life, all of which can be traced back to what we do-here and now. I don't know how we'll be thought of, but I'm sure that we won't be remembered as insignificant.”
“You never know what the American public is going to do, but you know that they will do it all at once.”
“I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.”

Source : Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.24, Penguin
“To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.”
“With just a little love and a little caring, I have seen kids totally turn around. Where you can't find any cancer at all anymore in their body. I've done it a lot of times. I'm not trying to say I'm Jesus Christ. We should just give a little more attention to the power of love and caring and faith and prayer.”
“The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.”

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