"Sadness was a very heavy thing."

-- Arthur Golden

#Sadness Quotes #Heavy Quotes

“People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.”
“You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation. I think the anticipation of death without language would be impossible.”
“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”

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.33, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.”
“Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?”
“I don't feel that I view things with a pessimistic eye. I should try to say which way events will go rather than which way events should go. We have to be realistic.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.”
“Water for me is so essential, like swimming.”

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