"Freedom comes in individual packages."

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Source : Shirley Boone (1972). “ONE WOMAN'S LIBERATION”

#Freedom Quotes #Individual Quotes

“My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.”

Source : Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus (2000). “Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.”
“We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.”
“When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.”
“All of life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment.”
“When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.”
“I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.”
“When I was younger, I thought, 'Ok, I'm supposed to do this project because it'll help my career,' but that didn't work because I ended up doing movies that I worked really hard on but I didn't really like and they didn't turn out well, so it was like I lost double. Once I just started working with people and projects I believed in, everything changed and I suddenly had a career that I loved and that I was proud of.”

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