"There are more than 100 million African women who go topless at some point in the day, each and every day, to honor both God and our ancestors. So being in a country like America where nothing is hated more than the image of the black woman, even by black people'because her womb produces the black man and makes us black'I find it of grave importance to implement African images, and especially to produce media images that acknowledge the sexual power and fertility of black women."

-- Kola Boof

#Country Quotes #Men Quotes #America Quotes

“I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.”
“Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.”
“We're smart enough to know we need to live in groups to survive, but we're still animals and we needs lots of room. In the case of the male of the species we also probably need that-guy-over-there's space. And his wife and cow, too.”
“Any idea's a great idea as long as it tastes great,”
“A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world...”

Source : Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.164, New Press, The
“I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past,”
“As a chapter closes in your life, And a new one starts for you, May your years be filled with all the things You've been looking forward to!”
“So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.”

Source : Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.288, Penguin

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