"I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor."

-- Zora Neale Hurston

#Class Quotes #African American Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.”
“I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain`s naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe`s first film was shown here [The Asphalt Jungle (1950)], a columnist actually wrote: `How much like our Diana Dors she is`.”
“On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. Itâ€™s in this sense that we must be holy.”
“I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made President.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“A great leader cannot worry about being well liked.”
“India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.”

Source : William Dalrymple (2004). “White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India”, p.7, Penguin
“I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.”
“If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great of the past...”

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