"I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to be told I had transcended my gender would be considered a compliment. I didn't know â€” yet â€” that black was compulsory. All of that was in the future. When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me â€” yet â€” the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Simple Quotes #Black Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“I never wanted to be a filmmaker. I still, sometimes, think I got sidetracked by this, like this is a tangent. My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that.”
“One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.”
“Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.”

Source : John Marsden (2010). “While I Live: The Ellie Chronicles 1: The Ellie Chronicles”, p.63, Pan Australia
“I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.”
“I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.”
“I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.”
“There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.”
“A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.”

Source : "Venezuela’s Elections: A Building Block to Something Bigger" by Leopoldo Lopez, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

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