"I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed."

-- Sherman Alexie

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“She writes that one of the moments that she felt most useful was when her mother had a headache, and she would stroke her head and rub her forehead. And I think Eleanor Roosevelt's entire life was dedicated to two things: (one) making it better for all people, people in trouble and in need, like her family.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The more motivation, the more passion you have behind it... There's nothing that can stop you.”
“Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.”
“Art should never be limited - the beauty of art is that it gives us the freedom to go places where we wouldn't go to in our normal lives. Inside, I'm just so many different people. I go from the pretty girl on the red carpet to the singer at Ozzfest, spitting in the crowd. That's Jada.”
“I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.”

Source : Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage
“I was going to be a High School teacher. I was studying at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, up in Canada. I was also acting in a wonderfully supportive theatre community in Edmonton. There's a lot of support for theatre there. So, I was having a great time, but I didn't consider acting as a serious career initially, because even the most successful actors that I know in Edmonton are not super successful. Acting over there is just not a success-oriented career.”
“I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society â€” with the cosmos. To link me with my family to the cosmos, that is easy, because all literature has some mystic tendency. So when we write about our family, we can link ourselves to the cosmos.”

Source : "Conversation with Kenzaburo Oe" by Harry Kreisler, "Conversations with History", Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, globetrotter.berkeley.edu. April 16, 1999.
“You can only work on yourself. Start there.”

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