"I'M INTROSPECTIVE, because sometimes I want to take "our" side without looking at the facts in situations like these. Sometimes I feel like it's us against them. Sometimes I'm just as prejudiced as people I point fingers at. And that's not right. How can I look at white skin and make assumptions but not want assumptions made about me? That's not right."

Source : Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.16, NavPress

Benjamin Watson

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“When you put a big budget into a film, it doesn't necessarily mean it will be a better picture, but it does help in creating new images on the screen.”

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“there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed”

Source : Richard Wright (1987). “Native son”, Harper Perennial
“Nothing prevents boredom like a good book.”
“If you have a great characters, you can always have your character do nothing or do something stupid, and people will still follow them, because they're so real and so tangible.”

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“Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.”
“You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!”
“Faith deals exclusively with believing God and His Word.”
“Walk like you have three men walking behind you.”

Source : "Oscar de la Renta's Legacy" by Vanessa Friedman, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2014.

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