"I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time."

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Source : Dionne Brand (1990). “No language is neutral”, McClelland & Stewart

Dionne Brand

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“Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up with the sense that they are inferior to white kids.”
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

Source : "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)
“If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one person didn't type that one word, would the future's history be changed? Dose their one word even mean anything? Dose my one (times a lot) word mean anything? Dose that one person's one word even get read-once? If I wasn't sitting here writing my words, would my future be different?”
“I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.”

Source : "Valorie Curry Talks THE FOLLOWING, What It’s Like to Play a Psycho, Working with James Purefoy, Her Character’s Future, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 22, 2013.
“When our minds are purified through karma (selfless action) and made single-pointed through up-asana (worship), we cannot remain satisfied with the small achievements in worldly life.”
“Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.”

Source : Stasi Eldredge (2013). “Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You”, p.108, David C Cook
“In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2015). “Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan”, p.4, Booklassic
“I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and open to new information - and objectivism - which thinks, "No, we know it all, we've got it, so real thinking and learning can come to an end."”

Source : Source: wildyogi.info

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