"When I joined, I was one of the first artists to sign on to the Motown West label when they opened their first studio in California. At the studio, you'd run into Stevie Wonder, you'd run into Marvin Gayeâ€¦it was very special."

-- Thelma Houston

#Running Quotes #Artist Quotes #California Quotes

“I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.”
“The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.”
“Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.”

Source : Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”
“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body. They were in some kind of state and condition that made them difficult to render into words. As a university student, I tried hard to write them in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.”
“When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.”
“what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.”

Source : Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems”, p.31, Beacon Press
“My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.”

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