"When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves."

-- Miles Davis

#Book Quotes #School Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.”
“The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.”

Source : pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”
“Aren't most of you descended from pirates?”
“I'll give you some symptoms of a sign that your faith is deteriorating-whenever you face all of your problems and you trust only your plans to get you out-it is a sign that your faith is deteriorating.”
“Im a songwriter and Id love to make that a part of my career.”
“I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the Buddha was trying to say. Rather than offering the balm of consolation, the Buddha encouraged us to peer deep and unflinchingly into the heart of the bewildering and painful experience that life can so often be.”
“The importance of a lost romantic vision should not be underestimated. In such a vision is power as well as joy. In it is meaning.Life is flat, barren, zestless, if one can find one's lost vision nowhere.”

Source : Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.169, University of Virginia Press
“My love for Heathchiff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.”

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