"I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I didn't just watch The Cosby Show, I watched Growing Pains and Family Ties too. We can tell those stories too."

-- Lena Waithe

#Growing Up Quotes #Pain Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally.”
“I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?”
“If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are”
“life's best balm - Forgetfulness!”
“According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.”
“Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this way it is possible to create work that refers the time span.”

Source : "A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger". Book by Bram van Velde, Deurne, p. 44, Letter to H. E. Kramer, October 25, 1926, 1994.
“What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?”
“It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.”

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