"Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken"

-- William Hazlitt

#Running Quotes #Fashion Quotes #Gentility Quotes

“Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.”
“Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality will flee.”
“What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.”
“Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.”
“I remember one of my writer friends asking me, "Jonestown? Everyone knows the ending. What's new or surprising that you can say about it?" I told him that although people may know that almost one thousand people died in the massacre, they don't know what happens to my five people. Some escaped, some did not.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.”

Source : Jones Very (1839). “Essays and Poems”, p.89
“I particularly love where I work because I was born, raised, and still live in the Bronx. I work in a Bronx location, so it's very fulfilling to me to be working in my home borough, and working with kids that are a lot like me and who can see themselves in me. My own teaching philosophy is to expose them to books that they might not otherwise read, particularly authors of color, authors whose stories are based in New York City.”
“I like writing and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way.”

Source : "Gbenga Akinnagbe talks Damages, Nurse Jackie and upcoming film projects". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. September 29, 2012.

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