"I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere."

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Pearl Primus

#People Quotes #Joy Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication. We can share our emotions, we can understand the language of feelings, and that's why we form deep and enduring social bonds with many other beings. Emotions are the glue that binds.”

Source : Marc Bekoff (2010). “The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy — and Why They Matter”, p.15, New World Library
“Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.”
“If my friends are going to the mountains with guns to fight, I will continue that fight, not with guns but with a camera.”
“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”
“Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance.”
“There is nothing wrong with having a good job, there is nothing wrong with having a nice house, there is nothing wrong with that. There is something wrong when that is your goal.”
“Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.”
“I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.”

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