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Amandla Stenberg
"It's easier to say, 'Don't care about what anyone thinks,' than it is to actually not care about what anyone thinks. But, honestly, anything you're passionate about, that's what you'll be the best at." --
Source : "Amandla Stenberg On Science, Activism And Her Idols". Interview with Jacqueline Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2015.
Amandla Stenberg
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“Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors...”
“He who wants peace must prepare for war.”
“No, no, no, I don't snort no more, I'm tired of waking up on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, then it makes it hard to find the door.”
“Tis time, my friend, 'tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking Fragments of being, while together you and I Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.”
“What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.”
“Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned gun. Then it exploded in your face on a November day in the rain.”
Source : Janet Fitch (2013). “Paint It Black”, p.120, Hachette UK
“I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.”
“The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen.”