"I sincerely believe that there is a time in life for drifting. There is a time for sitting back and getting in touch with yourself. Some of our most interesting illuminations and ideas will come when we take time to reflect, time to kick back and cruise awhile."

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Source : Rudolfo Anaya (2015). “The Essays”, p.34, Open Road Media

Rudolfo Anaya

#Believe Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Illumination Quotes

“I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.”

Source : "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.
“Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.”

Source : Kamala Markandaya (1954). “Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel”
“One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.”
“What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.”
“I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They come back up to the top and then they go back down and they come back up and they go back down.”
“Many trees could be saved if the government stopped printing tax forms.”
“When I became 21, I decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21.”
“Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.”

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