"The world is what you think it is"

-- Serge King

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing â€œthe mostâ€, meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick, and big hair is artifice, fake, and a distraction. But I knew even as a teenager that my femininity was more than just adornments; they were extensions of me, enabling me to express myself and my identity. My body, my clothes, and my makeup are on purpose, just as I am on purpose.”

Source : Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.147, Simon and Schuster
“Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody. You included.”

Source : Bernice L. McFadden (2001). “Sugar: A Novel”, p.39, Penguin
“You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, 'You know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.”

Source : "Master P Cleans Up His Act". "News & Notes" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. June 25, 2007.
“Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.”

Source : Cambridge Review 8 Dec. 1910, "Sonnet"
“My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.”
“I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music.”
“I want to love you wildly. I donâ€™t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.”
“Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.”

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