"I believe that many lives around us now can reflect this strange pattern of migration and movement. The question is: are we aware of it, and do we embrace it as a kind of birthright? I do. And yet, I feel deeply connected to at least two homespaces - Jamaica and Ghana, and more recently, South Carolina."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Kwame Dawes

#Believe Quotes #Ghana Quotes #Jamaica Quotes

“One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking around and asking, "God, what can You do through what I have?”

Source : Steven Furtick (2012). “Greater: Dream bigger. Start smaller. Ignite God's Vision for Your Life”, p.84, Multnomah
“Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.”
“I've often been given the career advice to not wear too many hats, which, of course, has just encouraged me to wear other hats, such as being a writer, being a curator, or just doing anything outside of the definition of an artist.”
“There's no real escape from the work, but in some ways, if you're as obsessive as I am, it's a sweet little thing we've figured out. You bring your work home and you work 24 hours a day, but it's good.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.”

Source : Walker Percy (2011). “Lancelot”, p.46, Open Road Media
“Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama,”
“On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.”
“We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.”

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