"I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten."

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Source : Heidi W. Durrow (2011). “The Girl Who Fell from the Sky”, p.264, Algonquin Books

Heidi W. Durrow

#Past Quotes #Color Quotes #Skins Quotes

“Your legs are not giving out. Your head is giving out. Keep going.”
“There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.”
“If you want to stay perfect, you cannot go undefeated with a blemish on your record.”
“I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.”
“I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.”
“I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they're not funny. I end up saying, â€œOh, no, I'm joking, I'm joking .”
“To the extent people can't solve a problem, they tend to ignore the problem.”
“When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.”

Source : James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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