"I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while."

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Source : "A tennis weekend as Serena wins ... and sets stage for Federer v Nadal" by Kevin McKenna, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2017.

Serena Williams

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“It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.”
“There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.”
“Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist," but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you're privileged in ways that you might not even realize because you haven't been deprived of certain things. We need to talk about these things in order for them to change.”
“I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.”
“Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.”
“The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.”
“To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.”
“People do make considered choices about whether they want to fight, and how, and they do so from disparate circumstances. But I think there are two important frameworks in which those choices get made. One, their degree of immiseration. The greatest predictor of who will engage in criminal activity is poverty, which tells us that the decisions people make about how unlawful they're willing to be are decisively based in their own experience of immiseration. The second framework is that when people choose to act, they inevitably act where they are.”

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