"The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness."

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Source : Ntozake Shange (2010). “Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan

Ntozake Shange

#Pain Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Confused Quotes

“You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.”

Source : "On humanity". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.
“If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.”
“I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.”
“Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.”
“Quantum mechanics is just completely strange and counterintuitive. We can't believe that things can be here [in one place] and there [in another place] at the same time. And yet that's a fundamental piece of quantum mechanics. So then the question is, life is dealing us weird lemons, can we make some weird lemonade from this?”

Source : "A Quantum Leap in Computing". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. July 21, 2011.
“Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.”

Source : Interview with Fred Topel, www.ign.com. August 17, 2004.
“I was adored [as a kid]. I was always in the air, hurled up and kissed and thrown in the air again. Until I was six, my feet didn't touch the ground. "Look at those eyes! That nose! Those lips! That tooth! Get that child away from me, quick! I'll eat him!" Giving that up was very difficult later on in life.”

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