"Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?"

-- Terry McMillan

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“A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.”
“Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.”
“Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.”
“MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.”
“Black detraction will find faults where they are not.”
“I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.”
“I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.”
“Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.”

Source : Marjorie M. Liu (2008). “The Iron Hunt”, p.49, Penguin

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