"Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you."

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Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

Lee Daniels

#College Quotes #Black Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“After you have the basics down it's all mental.”
“We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what weâ€™re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the â€œthick of thin things.â€ In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes.”
“Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.”
“Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Jun 24, 2014
“In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it . . . a wild book.”
“Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?”
“Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.”
“Surround yourself with positive people.”

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