"The racial conversation in the States is so multifaceted and multilayered. Obviously it's not always a positive conversation, but it's just so much more detailed than it was when I was growing up in South Africa."

-- St. Lucia

#Growing Up Quotes #States Quotes #Conversation Quotes

“I wanted to be in a Baz Luhrmann film. It's just extraordinary. He's so amazing at what he does. He makes the most incredible films.”
“Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It's not brain surgery.”
“Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.”

Source : "21 Leaders for the 21st Century". Interview for Women's E News, 2008.
“A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.”
“The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.”
“To live in a world of photographs is to live in a world of substitutes... or so it seems, whose actual referent is always the other, the described, the reality of a world once removed. I prefer, on the other hand, to look at the photographs as something real and of my world, a strange and powerful thing... part of a language, a system of communication, an economy of signs.”
“My favorite dish is cleaning out the fridge on Sunday night and improvising a great medley.”

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