"If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss and decay, then you're in deep trouble. Once you make a certain kind of peace with the past, then you should be completely oriented towards speculation about the future."

-- Kerry James Marshall

#Loss Quotes #Past Quotes #People Quotes

“The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.”
“Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.”

Source : "Need to Meet: Kate Mara". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.marieclaire.com. April 19, 2010.
“And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.”
“Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.”
“In a malleable world where everything from atoms to cells is changing to match our beliefs, we're limited only by the way we think of ourselves in that world.”
“In the beginning of time, light drew out matter along with itself into a mass as great as the fabric of the world.”
“Some people in Indonesia say they are content, but in fact most of them are miserable. People say they are not poor, even if they take water from the gutter and live in a carton shack. They say they are not afraid, because even the horror they are experiencing every day, is not allowed here to be defined as fear. If it is, the families, the officials, and mass media, mock it.”
“In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.”

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