"If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know."

-- Katherine Dunham

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“In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by any outer definition and to give up acts of futility. It is to let the world remain a mystery that cannot be captured by science, language, or any invention of the mind.”
“I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.”
“Only the believing obey, only the obedient believe”
“The majority of people who come to America come for a better life, just like the Italians, the Jews, the Irish, and the Polish did in generations before. A lot of the Irish came here back in the turn of the 19th to the 20th century because there were no opportunities and no options at home for them. There were no jobs and there was extreme poverty. They came here to be able to send money back home.”
“If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.”
“The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason againstÂ one's soul.”
“You need to work yourself up into some kind of a state every morning and believe that you are doing something terribly important upon which the future of literature, if not the world, depends. Buddhism tells you that this is just a foolish fantasy. So, I try not to think too much about Buddhism early in the morning. From noon on, I think about it.”
“Those who elected Hamas in Palestine did so on the basis of its political platform.”

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