"I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently."

-- Boris Kodjoe

#Artist Quotes #Views Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”
“We become human only in the company of other human beings. And this involves both opening our hearts and giving voice to our deepest convictions. ...When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.”

Source : Paul Rogat Loeb (2010). “Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times”, p.30, Macmillan
“The most interesting ideas definitely come at night.”
“Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.”

Source : Phyllis A. Whitney (1985). “Writing juvenile stories and novels: how to write and sell fiction for young people”, Writer
“Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.”
“With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing.”
“I see an ocean thatâ€™s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.”
“I was all for setting up a separate Jewish state in Madagascar or Palestine or someplace, but not to exterminate them. Besides, by exterminating 4 million Jews - they say 5 or 6 million at this trial, but that is all propaganda, I am sure it wasn't more than 4.5 million - they have made martyrs out of those Jews. For example, because of the extermination of these Jews, anti-Semitism has been set back many years in certain foreign countries where it had been making good progress.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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