"My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time."

-- Ishmael Beah

#Teeth Quotes #Stories Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
“White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way - and if they don't, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.”
“If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.”
“A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.”

Source : Anna Seward (1810). “The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence”, p.13
“It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.”
“The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish.”
“There was a school in Chicago called the School of Design. This was started by [LaszlÃ³] Moholy-Nagy, and it was a wonderful school, but we [with Alix MacKenzie] didn't go to that school. We did have friends who went to that school and we would visit there often, and I'm sure it pushed me in my painting direction very strongly just by association.”

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