"I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change."

-- Annie Lennox

#Cutting Quotes #Viewpoints Quotes #Baffled Quotes

“for man, woman, and child the tender, irregular, sensitive, living foot, which does not even stand with all its little surface on the ground, and which makes no base to satisfy an architectural eye, is, as it were, the unexpected thing. ... nothing makes a more helpless and unsymmetrical sign than does a naked foot.”
“I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.”
“By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.”

Source : "There is a solution to 'stop-and-frisk': decriminalise marijuana" by Sal Albanese, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2013.
“So, too, if, to our surprise, we should meet one of these morons whose remarks are so conspicuous a part of the folklore of the world of the radio--remarks made without using either the tongue or the brain, spouted much like the spoutings of small whales--we should recognize him as below the level of nature but not as below the level of the imagination.”
“One of the things I really worry about is that if you don't see middle class wage growth, if you don't see the economy in certain areas of the country, the middle part of the country, starting to come back in the same way that it's doing especially well, let's say, in California or New York, then people are going to become politically frustrated.”
“I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.”
“I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all....a day.....an hour.”
“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

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