"I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over."

-- Janet Jackson

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“If you tell somebody enough, "You're stupid, you're not worth it, you can't do this, you can't do that," then how many times do you have to hear that before you believe it? The power of words is immeasurable.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ed Wood". "Ed Wood", 1994.
“If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.”
“There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.”
“I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war's fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever-increasing enjoyment.”
“However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.”

Source : Christine Keeler, Douglas Thompson (2012). “Secrets and Lies: Now Profumo is Dead, I Can Finally Reveal the Truth About the Most Shocking Scandal in British Politic”, p.18, John Blake Publishing
“Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality.”

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