"It is a dangerous time to be a black woman in America. Itâ€™s a time when we are not safe in the streets or at home or at school or at work and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it. Nobody. Not us. Not our mommas. Not the police. Not the people we elected to look out for our interests. Nobody. Weâ€™re just out here. (p.53)"

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Source : Pearl Cleage (1993). “Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot”

Pearl Cleage

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“Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success upon the stage. And I am still of the same opinion. Imagination, industry [hard work], and intelligence-the three I's-are all indispensable to the actor, but of these three the greatest is, without any doubt, imagination.”

Source : Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”
“On The New Normal the thing I was probably more proud of than anything else is that we were just trying to put positive energy out there in the world, and we got to do it for one season and that's more than most.”

Source : "‘The New Normal’ Star Justin Bartha Talks About The Show’s Cancelation" By Gustavo Heredia, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2013.
“When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.”
“The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.”
“I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.”
“Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost.”
“I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.”

Source : Ernest Thompson Seton (2007). “Wild Animals I Have Known”, p.12, Yesterday's Classics
“When you have really solid biology and medical science at the core of an issue, it makes it much easier to identify what potential solutions may be.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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