"If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa"

-- Nadine Gordimer

#White Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from Sep 29, 2011
“The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye. It can see by invisible light. It can see in the past, present, and future. Instead of using the camera only to reproduce objects, I wanted to use it to make what is invisible to the eye - visible.”
“The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.”

Source : Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社
“In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.”
“The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change”
“Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties”
“Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.”

Source : Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated
“The nude thing, I don't know. It's sillier somehow. It's more like physical comedy. But kissing someone, it feels invasive to have everybody watching me.”

Source : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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