"I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to"

-- Edwidge Danticat

#Daughter Quotes #Memories Quotes #Children Quotes

“It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.”
“It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.”
“The faith to step out is worthless without the faithfulness to stick it out.”
“While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed...Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.”
“We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 27, 2015
“The first breach was in My Garden, and because you were willing to stand in the coldness that that breach had caused from last season, I now am producing blessings in your midst. Now the next breach is linked with the provision that needs to be unlocked. Therefore, all God-robbing spirits will be broken.”

Source : "Chuck Pierce: The NEXT 14 Days: "The Fight of Faith: Opening the Portal of Provision, Revelation and Your Destiny for the Future!" by Chuck Pierce". www.elijahlist.com. March 5, 2014.
“I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.”

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