"This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it is a murder, an erasing, and it is not surprising that when people have felt themselves prey to it (conquest), among their first acts of liberation is to change their names ..."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Spiritual Quotes #Keys Quotes #Names Quotes

“I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.”
“Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.”
“For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children”
“What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.”
“Our words have power. They impact others, but they also impact us.”
“It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.”
“Itâ€™s not that Egypt doesnâ€™t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients.”
“The day I found out, the day I got my mammogram and the doctor told me I had breast cancer, it was mid-November.”

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