"My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify."

-- Jessica Hagedorn

#Grandmother Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Identity Quotes

“Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.”
“Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.”
“Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.”
“It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.”
“real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.238, D & M Publishers
“He crouched at the car window and looked in. 'What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They're all lovely. Except for that one.' His finger jabbed the glass. 'That one's a bit ugly.”
“I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown. I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me.”
“We're all human and life is complicated.”

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