"I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands."

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Source : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

Judith Jamison

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Eye Quotes

“If one has not heard Wagner at Bayreuth, one has heard nothing! Take lots of handkerchiefs because you will cry a great deal! Also take a sedative because you will be exalted to the point of delirium!”
“Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.”
“...claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.”
“I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.”
“Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism and capitalism in Third World nations be overcome if a new system is to prevail.”
“There's only room for one dominant female in the McMahon family... and that's me!”
“A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.”

Source : A. J. P. Taylor (2001). “English History 1914-1945”, p.5, Oxford Paperbacks
“Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.”

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