"There was so much anti-Irish sentiment not just from other kids at the school I went to in Britain, but also the teachers themselves. I remember very clearly a lot of the things people said to me and my sisters. And of course those sentiments go back a long way. When my dad visited London in the 50s and was looking for somewhere to stay, there were signs outside boarding houses that said "No blacks, no Irish.""

-- Maggie O'Farrell

#Teacher Quotes #Dad Quotes #School Quotes

“What does my soul look like to you?' 'I couldn't reduce it to words if I tried, but its beauty is unsurpassed.”
“A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.”
“Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.”
“Hold your head high heavy heart.”
“I want to live in a city where the people who make the rules have to live by them.”
“I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.”
“...the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers...”

Source : Zitkala-Sa (2014). “American Indian Stories”, p.109, Diderot Publishing
“I'd liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful.”

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