"Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up with the sense that they are inferior to white kids."

-- Roger Ross Williams

#Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes

“There is nothing you canâ€™t do, if you set your mind to it. Anything is possible.”
“There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.”

Source : Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.9, Macmillan
“EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will”

Source : Eliphas Levi (2013). “The Ritual of Transcendental Magic”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag
“I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.”
“To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.”

Source : Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.61, Open Road Media
“To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.”
“We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed at night with nothing to eat, among the poor newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways.”
“I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want. The thing is, I do identify with being black, and if people don't identify me that way that's their issue. Iâ€™m happy to challenge people's understanding of what it looks like to be biracial, because guess what? In the next 50 years, people will start looking more and more like me.”

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