"Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone."

-- Dinaw Mengestu

#Growing Up Quotes #Color Quotes #Skins Quotes

“You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.”

Source : O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics
“I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies.”

Source : Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. December 10, 2014.
“She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.”
“You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.”
“God gave me eyes so that I might see you, and God gave you eyes, so that I might see myself.”
“Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.”
“My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.”
“Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.”

Source : The Arthur Waley Estate, Arthur Waley (2012). “Chinese Poems”, p.177, Routledge

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