"You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, its hard to believe that it was America, but it really was."

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Source : "Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down Easy". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. December 20, 2010.

Anna Deavere Smith

#Believe Quotes #School Quotes #America Quotes

“Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I think thats what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether its education or housing.”
“A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier MarÃas sentences, by how elegant they are while also being so permissive in relation to the niceties of grammar and so open to the prospect of surprise. He's a genius.”
“I'm not a sun person.”
“I think I made you up inside my head.”
“Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity...”
“After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.”
“The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.”

Source : Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.135, Zondervan

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