"Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other."

-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Race Quotes #Disrespect Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks”
“When you hear all these things about homosexual marriage, this has nothing to do with homosexual rights. The whole objective is the destruction of the traditional family. It has nothing to do with homosexuals.”
“I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.”
“I have wondered if I might be placed on a watch list of some sort by the government, though. I know that the documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who is a friend and who has made documentaries about controversial Middle Eastern terrorists has had trouble at customs when she travels internationally - but nothing like that has happened to me.”
“Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream”

Source : Song: Grace, Album: I've Been Expecting You, 2006
“Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.”

Source : Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.118, Simon and Schuster
“We who were formerly no people at all, and who knew of no peace, are now called to be...a church...of peace. True Christians do not know vengeance. They are the children of peace. Their hearts overflow with peace. Their mouths speak peace, and they walk in the way of peace.”
“I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com

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