"I think a lot about race and the burdens of representation. There's an idea that because I'm writing a book set around the time of the Great Migration, and happen to be black, I'm trying to write a definitive account of the Great Migration, the so-called "black experience." That's not what I'm doing, and it can be frustrating."

-- Ayana Mathis

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.”
“You are going to change the world, because that is actually what the world is. You do not pass through this life, it passes through you. You experience it, you interpret it, you act, and then it is different. That happens constantly. You are changing the world. You always have been.”
“I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.”

Source : "Katie Cassidy Talks About Playing Dinah Laurel Lance in ARROW; Starts Shooting in July". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 12, 2012.
“It'sÂ ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.”
“I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“After too much art that made too much sense, artists are operating blind again. They're more interested in the possible than the probable, the private that speaks publicly rather than the public with no private side at all.”
“[Director Christopher] Nolan has not only crafted the best Batman movie, but arguably the second-best motion picture superhero narrative (topped only by the linked duo of Superman and Superman II ). For those who thought Spider-Man and X-Men had a lot to offer, wait till you see where this film goes. ... Batman Begins is a strong re-start to a franchise that deserves better than it has often been accorded.”

Source : "Batman Begins (2005)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,
“Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us”

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