"Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places."

-- Romare Bearden

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“The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.”
“I'm suggesting we call sex something else, and it should include everything from kissing to sitting close together.”
“You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.”

Source : Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.
“The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.”

Source : Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.66, Hachette UK
“Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.”
“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count”
“I have seen faith rise 'mountain high' when the truth of God's present love and compassion begins to dawn upon the minds and hearts of the people. It is not what God can do, but what we know He yearns to do, that inspires faith.”

Source : F. F. Bosworth (2001). “Christ the Healer”, p.74, Chosen Books
“You have to have a temperamental attraction to dangerous ideas...”

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