"The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted."

-- Richard Rodriguez

#Morning Quotes #Book Quotes #Yellow Quotes

“When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.”
“I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.”
“I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.”
“Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.”

Source : D. T. Max (2012). “Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace”, p.182, Penguin
“I think Bob [Dylan] told me that he turned down twenty interviews that year, and I was the only one that he sat down and did an interview with. And, he said that it was one of his highlights, and it was one of my highlights. And, I was very glad to talk with Bob. I found out that he was a good fan of mine, and that tickled me.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.”

Source : "The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, p. 20, 2002.
“Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.”
“I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don't love yourself, take care of yourself, cater to yourself and that little inner voice, you will really not be very worthy of being with someone else, because you won't be the best version of you.”

Source : "Kimora Lee Simmons Dishes On “Life In The Fab Lane” & Says Goodbye To The Past". Interview with Abiola Abrams, rnbphilly.com.

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