"There's a stereotype that to be a strong black woman is to be strong about being black."

-- Ayana Mathis

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“An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.”
“Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.”
“One of the reasons I work serially, but also one of the reasons that I try to claim space in painting, is I'm desperately interested in asking: How can a group of images, or even two images, have meaning together?”

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“I didn't write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because I had a weird need to write a good story. But once I was done, I did feel better about myself. Not better, just calmer. Because a tremendous onus had been lifted off my day-to-day.”

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“The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the Earth. As soon as we isolate ourselves from these currents of life and from the profound mood that these engender within us, then our basic life-satisfactions are diminished. None of our machine-made products, none of our computer-based achievements can evoke that total commitment to life.”
“Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.”
“Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.”
“Nope," he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. "Mine now.”

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