"Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy."

-- Gerda Lerner

#Determination Quotes #Self Quotes #People Quotes

“I guess my styleâ€™s a little edgy but comfortable. I like being comfortable, for sure, and kind of casual.”
“Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.”
“I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don't wanna be focusing on the past.”
“I'm a huge Dallas Mavs fan. What I love about Dirk Nowitzki is he has just as much talent as everyone else, if not more, and he never toots his own horn. He's this silent warrior.”
“Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.”
“A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.”

Source : The Salutation (published 1903).
“Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, thereâ€™s no reason to add to everyoneâ€™s misery by looking miserable yourself.”
“In general, the auditions I go up for are very sparse, I guess because of my ethnicity. And the characters are very similar: shy, innocent and naive; the connotations that come from the way that I look.”

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