"People leave when life becomes untenable where they are."

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Source : "The Great Migration & ‘The Warmth Of Other Suns’: Isabel Wilkerson On The African American Immigrant Story". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2010.

Isabel Wilkerson

“The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.”
“Turn things around sometimes and look at life from a different perspective.”
“...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.”
“It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.”
“I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.”
“When you are free of form and not confused, you are focused. To be free of form externally is 'Zen.' Not to be confused internally is 'meditation.' External Zen and internal meditation, this is what we mean by 'Zen meditation.”
“Just in case God isn't dead, our astronauts carry sidearms.”
“I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.”

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