"You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts ..."

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Source : Nikki Giovanni (1992). “Conversations with Nikki Giovanni”, p.186, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Nikki Giovanni

“If I seem to be reckless with myself,It's the fault of no one.All things have a placeUnder the moon as well as the sun.”
“I know firsthand that many employers who comply with other labor standards still hire the undocumented. Many businesses pay the minimum wage and have barely tolerable working conditions because there are sufficient undocumented workers willing to accept those terms. If we care about low-income workers in this country, we need to create pressure to improve their economic condition by reducing the supply of unauthorized workers.”
“It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.”
“A wounded deer leaps the highest.”
“Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the countryâ€™s most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue all night, then stampede into the shops, elbow, trample and sometimes fight to be the first to carry off some designer junk which will go into landfill before the sales next year. The madder the orgy, the greater the triumph of economic management.”
“If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves up in monasteries? What's the good of solving your personal suffering if the solution keeps you isolated from everyone else's suffering?”

Source : Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.47, Changemakers Books
“Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.”
“I am always interested in designing things that have a great price point attached to it.”

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