"I struggled for a long time to get anything published."

-- Jennifer Donnelly

“No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known Godâ€™s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through.”
“I am black. What are you going to do about it?”

Source : Adrian Piper, Maurice Berger, Jean Fisher (1999). “Adrian Piper: a retrospective”, Fine Arts Gallery Umbc
“There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.”
“The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud.”
“In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.”
“I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent.”
“For one thing, I think that there are questions which philosophers raise which, although science bears on them, are not typically the central focus of those who work in the sciences. At the same time, I don't have a view of philosophy which marks it out as different in kind from scientific work”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.”

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