"I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief."

-- Zora Neale Hurston

#Mother Quotes #Native American Quotes #African American Quotes

“I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.”
“The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges.”

Source : "Let’s Shake Up the Social Sciences". www.nytimes.com. July 19, 2013.
“Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open.”

Source : Leza Lowitz (2011). “Yoga Heart: Lines on the Six Perfections”, p.60, Stone Bridge Press
“Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.”
“I think when you're really stressed out and can't really face reality... you shop.”
“The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.”
“If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.”
“We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.”

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