"The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emergence so if they ignore you, you don't have to disappear."

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Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

Haile Gerima

#Self Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.”
“When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.”
“A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those that occur when someone who has an appointment to see you is prevented from coming.”
“No king nor nation one moment can ***** the appointed hour.”
“I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.”
“Focus on the opportunities, not on the constraints.”
“I don't know about one moment that has pivoted my career. I do know that one thing that hit me and made me take a few steps back was a year at Steamboat.”
“The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.”

Source : Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.7, Penguin

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