"Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties."

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Benjamin Banneker

#Sight Quotes #African American Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
“Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.”
“I not only listen to country music - I have a like for R&B music.”
“One of the rules that I always follow is that no matter how crazy characters may act, and no matter how absurd or strange their actions may be, that it's justified in the character's mind why they are doing it. Not to get all heady about it, but it's fun for me to test how far I can go with things while still keeping it grounded enough that you believe that the character really believes that what he's doing will get him what he wants. It's a personal challenge to me to see how far I can go with that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.”
“In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.”
“Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who cant write their own language.”
“My adoption was treated as a celebration.”

Source : Michael Reagan, Joe Hyams (1988). “On the outside looking in”, Zebra Books

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