"This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equally mythical and improbable enemies; cosmic enemies, perverse and subtle, who pervade everything like the air."

-- Primo Levi

#Dream Quotes #Real Quotes #Past Quotes

“Identity is very personal...identity is political. My identity is what is and it is what it's gonna be. And I don't think that any information will change that profoundly...I [already] know that I am a Black woman, and a Black woman who has mixed some heritage, like most African Americans.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.”
“I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.”
“The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.”

Source : Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.224, Open Road Media
“There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul.”
“I don't need any more press. I get enough when I work, but environmental causes is one place where you can get me to open my mouth. And put my foot in it if necessary. I think the only thing I do that gives me any bragging rights in terms of energy conservation is sailing. Just using wind power.”
“All the words are not enough to get anything said.”
“In a country where people's attention span is short and they are holding the clicker in their hand, and they got a hundred other options, you have to basically understand what the audience is responding to. If you don't, you're going to fail.”

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