"Tall poplars--human beings of this earth!"

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Paul Celan

#Earth Quotes #Humans Quotes

“Sooner or later usually means too late”
“You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.”

Source : "Life stories". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.
“Singing was my first passion. Whenever I sing, I'm always so happy.”
“The way to get motivated and stay motivated is to identify, define, and emotionally connect to your dreams.”
“All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage at the end and you were happy; or you had the terrible Henry James savage downfall because of your own hubris as a woman, or you've made some great error leading you down a path to ruin. One is the story of love that's successful and the other is the story usually of reckless love that goes terribly wrong that destroys the woman.”
“The gods, if they exist, are just the people who happen to live on the other side.”
“Blacks are supposed to rejoice whenever our way of life becomes more mainstream. We seldom do. For we see in it a sanctioning that can only be granted by white society. In other words: If you're white, it's all right. If you're black, step back.”

Source : Lena Williams (2002). “It's the Little Things: Everyday Interactions that Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races”, p.184, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Never underestimate the power of people who are determined to change life and work with all their might towards it. They are the ones who turn into leaders and revolutionize the world around us.”

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