"Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it."

-- Mae Jemison

#Greatness Quotes #Black Quotes #Style Quotes

“Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile.”
“I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey”
“Race doesn't mean what it used to in America anymore. It just doesn't. Obama's black, but he's not black the way people used to define that. Is black your experience or the color of your skin? My experience is as a Mexican immigrant, more so than someone like George Lopez. He's from California. But he'll be treated as an immigrant. I am an outsider. MyÂ abuelita,Â my grandmother, didn't speak English. My whole family on my dad's side is in Mexico. I won't ever be called that or treated that way, but it was my experience.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.”
“People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.”
“Things are different from what I thought. They're much worse.”

Source : Fritz Leiber (2014). “Conjure Wife”, p.180, Open Road Media
“If you know what you want, you will recognize it when you see it.”
“The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.”

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