"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."

-- Constance Baker Motley

#Grandmother Quotes #Parent Quotes #Slave Quotes

“I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.”
“I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.”

Source : "David S. Goyer Explains His ‘Graphic Novel’ Approach to Renaissance Intrigue in ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’". Interview with lison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2013.
“God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.”
“If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.”
“I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is tied into.”

Source : "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.
“The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.”
“I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.”
“A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings ...”

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