"I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive."

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Source : Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback

Richard Wright

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“My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically.”

Source : "Q&A: King of Mo-Cap Andy Serkis on Digital Acting and Gollum’s Oscar Diss". Interview with Steve Silberman, www.wired.com. September 14, 2007.
“I always tell my three daughters, it's not about the number on the scale, it's how you feel. You know you are going to feel better if you eat healthier.”
“God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.”

Source : Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.465, Discovery House
“Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.”
“Perhaps the clearest and deepest meaning of brotherhood is the ability to imagine yourself in the other person's position, and then treat that person as if you were him or her. This form of brotherhood takes a lot of imagination, a great deal of sympathy, and a tremendous amount of understanding.”
“Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.”
“Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!”
“The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic still, it imagined a country full of people imagining themselves.”

Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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