"I want to live in a world where Miley (or any female musician) can twerk wildly at 20, wear a full-cover floral hippie mumu at 37, show up at 47 in see-through latex, and pose semi-naked, like Keith & co, on the cover of Rolling Stone at 57 and be APPLAUDED for being so comfortable with her body."

-- Amanda Palmer

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“I have touched here on a problem that is masked if one speaks of racism. And that is the fact that the major differences between the established and outsiders group, which create tension and irritation, is not the form of the face or the skin color but the form of behavior: something learned. The form of behavior and feeling, of sentiment, is different in the immigrant groups from that of the established groups, and that may give rise to an enormous irritation.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
“As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months.”
“But I've also spread my net very wide. If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.”
“Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.”
“No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 19, 2017
“Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.”
“In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.”

Source : Timothy B. Tyson (2007). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, p.107, Broadway Books
“When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.”

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