"You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?"

-- Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#Racism Quotes #Black Quotes #Situation Quotes

“I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.”
“Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.”
“Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.”
“Mentally it is possible to break records, once you understand that, you can do anything.”
“freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.”
“I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?”
“How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1688, Delphi Classics
“I'd love to do music for films.”

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