"The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals."

-- Dorothy Height

#Self Esteem Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Goal Quotes

“Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it all out. So we usually try to stand up to dictators like, well, we won't mention names.”
“Well then, "Katsa said. "Of course, we'll operate with the greatest possible secrecy, Bitterblue. And for what it's worth, we'll deny your involvement to our dying breaths, and I'll kill anyone who doesn't." Bann began to laugh into Raffin's shoulder. Smiling, Raffin said sideways to him, "Can you imagine what it would be like to be able to say that and mean it?”

Source : Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.35, Frog Books
“I think self-portraits are very difficult. Iâ€™ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be available. Iâ€™d want it to be very graphic â€“ about darkness and light. No one else should be there, but Iâ€™m scared to do it by myself. Iâ€™ve been thinking about it for a long time. The whole idea of a self-portrait is strange. Iâ€™m so strongly linked to how I see through the camera that to get to the other side of it would be difficult. It would be as if I were taking a photograph in the dark.”
“I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.”
“Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House.”
“All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists.”
“Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.”
“One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.”

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