"Wounds, I think, are never confined to a single skin but reach out to rasp us all."

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Source : Lauren Slater (2012). “Welcome to My Country”, p.179, Anchor

Lauren Slater

#Thinking Quotes #Skins Quotes #Reach Out Quotes

“Don't lose sight of the fact that hip and legs drive the horse forward and the hands merely channel this power by gentle rein aids.”
“I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.”

Source : Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”
“Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.”
“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”
“The President [Barack Obama] is very focused on [healthcare]. He, of course, is also writing this speech at high speed. And right coming up until the speech, he is convinced that a full plan, letter and verse of what the administration wants, will be released.”
“There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.”

Source : Herbert M. Shelton (1993). “Getting Well”, p.9, Health Research Books
“Salad is roughage and a French idea.”
“Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer”

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