"America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else."

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Source : "The Great Migration & ‘The Warmth Of Other Suns’: Isabel Wilkerson On The African American Immigrant Story". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2010.

Isabel Wilkerson

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“The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.”
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.”
“Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.”

Source : Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Simon and Schuster
“America is another name for opportunity.”
“Tamaki: You're the one giving up without even trying.”
“Horses (thou say'st) and ***** men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy; But wives, a random choice, untried they take; They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake; Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.”
“There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.”
“I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.”

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