"Even though ashrams... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore."

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Deepa Mehta

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“Black people don't know what white people are talking about when they talk about a Sister Souljah moment. I tell them it's the moment you meet a proud, beautiful black woman you can never forget.”
“Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.”

Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.170, Penguin
“I tend to read things that are a little more on the nourishing side. But if I don't enjoy something, I'll put it down.”
“An idle life always produces varied inclinations.”

Source : "Pharsalia", IV. 704 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 384-385), 1922.
“We can't take a slipshod and easygoing attitude toward education in this country. And by "we" I don't mean "somebody else," but I mean me and I mean you. It is the future of our country-yours and mine-which is at stake.”
“It is better to take time to consider, than find time to repent.”
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”

Source : Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.70, Counterpoint
“LINUS: Where are you going for Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown? CHARLIE: My father, my mother, Sally, and I are all going to my grandmothers for dinner. SALLY: Do you want to come too, Linus? We can hold hands under the table. LINUS: BLECH!”

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