"I know this world is far from perfect. I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon. I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic. But every ocean has a shoreline and every shoreline has a tide that is constantly returning to wake the songbirds in our hands, to wake the music in our bones, to place one fearless kiss on the mouth of that new born river that has to run through the center of our hearts to find its way home."

-- Andrea Gibson

#Running Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Ocean Quotes

“People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.”

Source : Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “No Sweetness Here and Other Stories”, p.96, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?”
“I donâ€™t create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.”
“I certainly never thought I would run for office myself. If someone had suggested it, I would have laughed out loud.”
“To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.”
“Hip Hop will always have a lane of its own, for those that appreciate the culture.”

Source : Meraki Mag Interview, www.merakiafrica.com. January 27, 2014.
“Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.”
“Who said it first? We don't know, but very often we find the same ideas attributed to two different people. All we can do is give you both. . . . The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”

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