"After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy."

-- Iris Johansen

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“Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.”
“The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.”
“Question your tea spoons.”
“The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.”
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.”

Source : Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.155, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful - namely, if we can work together, we can make ourselves into whatever we are clever and courageous enough to imagine ourselves becoming. This is to set aside Kant's question "What is man?" and to substitute the question "What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?”

Source : Richard Rorty (1998). “Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers”, p.175, Cambridge University Press
“Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.”
“Arts are what free and thriving people do with their time after their critical needs have been met.”

Source : Source: www.columbusunderground.com

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