"It is the mind that shapes the body"

-- Joseph Pilates

#Mind Quotes #Body Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.”
“I do think that the Trump presidency, even for the resistance, there is pre-Charlottesville and a post-Charlottesville moment, and Donald Trump's response to Charlottesville was a kind of extraordinarily shameful moment, I think, actually for the country.”
“I never ever paid attention to any election.”
“My breathing slowed. I shaded her thick chestnut hair resting in a smooth curve against her face, a large bruise blazing across her cheek. I paused, looking over my shoulder to make certain I was alone. I drew her eye makeup, smudged by tears. In her watery eyes I drew the reflection of the commander, standing in front of her, his fist clenched. I continued to sketch, exhaled, and shook out my hands.”

Source : Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.117, Penguin
“No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.79
“Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work.”
“Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the arriviste. Inasmuch as one of those rituals consists of the establishment of suitable ancestry, a search for distinguished bloodlines, it inevitably happens that photographic history and criticism are more concern with notions of tradition and continuity than with those of rupture and change.”
“One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.”

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