"What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic."

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Source : Romare Bearden (1968). “Romare Bearden: Paintings and Projections”

Romare Bearden

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“Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation.”
“The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight"”
“I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.”

Source : Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.355, Simon and Schuster
“The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then sit down as friends over a drink or dinner. This habit is often interpreted by the layman as a mark of their ultimate corruption. In my opinion, it is their greatest moral achievement: It is a characteristic of humane tolerance that is most desperately needed at the present time.”
“Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.”

Source : Speech at the Ceremony to Inaugurate the Restored Humayun's Tomb Gardens, New Delhi, India, www.akdn.org. April 15, 2003.
“For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sherbet and Neapolitan ice cream. The mounds, some 100 feet tall, sprout delicate treelike gorgonians that sift currents for a plankton meal. Fish, worms and other creatures dart or crawl in every crevice. This description could apply to thousands of coral reefs in shallow, sun-streaked tropical waters from Australia to the Bahamas. But this is the Sula Ridge, 1,000 feet down in frigid darkness on the continental shelf 100 miles off Norway's coast.”
“All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.”
“Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world....”

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