"When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room."

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Source : Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.18, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Gwendolyn Brooks

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“Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.”
“In general, salary for land surveyors is often similar to that of a professional engineer or lawyer - surveyors are often "comfortable" but not "wealthy."”

Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.
“The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in.”

Source : "Chelsea Roff: Science Set Free — An Interview with Rupert Sheldrake". Interview with Chelsea Roff, intentblog.com. September 11, 2012.
“I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.”
“For years and years and years... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it changed my personality, sometimes I wonder if it didn't damage my brain.”
“And as I stood there in the hallwayâ€•aloneâ€•trying to understand what had just happened and why, I realized the truth: I wasn't worth an explanationâ€•not even a reaction. Not in your eyes.”

Source : Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.168, Penguin
“Facebook is the novel we are all writing”

Source : Katie Roiphe (2013). “In Praise of Messy Lives”, p.155, Canongate Books
“It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.”

Source : "The Passage". Book by Justin Cronin, 2010.

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