"I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity and ethos of what I would write, however, came from the films of Ousmane Sembene and from reading Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker."

-- Kola Boof

#Integrity Quotes #Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I've struggled enough in my life to be appreciated and understood. I've had to go against all kinds of people through the years just to be myself. I think everybody should be allowed to be who they are, and to love who they love. I don't think we should be judgmental. Lord, I've got enough problems of my own to pass judgment on somebody else.”
“It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.”
“There are still countries where women don't enjoy basic rights like the vote or the freedom to study or the freedom of choice in marriage. Every year there are twenty million little girls in Africa who are deprived of their sexuality through brutal genital operations. Basically, there's still much to be done.”

Source : Source: wordswithoutborders.org
“I think Donald Trump simply needs to make himself look less bigoted, less dangerous, more comfortable to people.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? - Where do you go?”
“At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.”

Source : Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin
“Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.”
“Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.”

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