"I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness."

-- Herbie Hancock

#Taken Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Rights Quotes

“I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and that's crazy.”

Source : "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.
“If I see a live show and it doesn't have the aspect of danger where it could potentially go wrong, it's not that interesting to me.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Luckily for me, most of my work is through a brand or client who approaches my agent. Before I began modeling, I never realized how many barriers there were for people with disabilities within the industry. I didn't realize how much prejudice and ignorance existed. That made me even more determined to break down the barriers and to wake up the industry to the fact that beauty shows up in all different shapes, sizes and abilities.”

Source : Source: abilitymagazine.com
“The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.”
“Dance brings us all together.”

Source : Source: www.thefader.com
“Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.”

Source : Robert J. Sawyer (2010). “WWW: Watch”, p.254, Penguin
“I think the show has so many wonderful memories connected to it for lots of people. When fans come to see me at the Andy Griffith Museum they get so emotional. Some of them cry, lots of them hug me and some want a kiss on the cheek.”
“Sooner or later you'll hear what your heart has always been telling you: stop trying to be who you think you should be - become who you are.”

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