"As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black."

-- Shirley Chisholm

#Political Quotes #Black Quotes #Prejudice Quotes

“Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.”
“I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.”
“I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.”
“Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.”
“Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.”
“Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.”
“To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.”
“Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE - not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.”

Source : Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.103, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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