"What you have despised in yourself as a thorn opens into a rose."

-- Rumi

“History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.”

Source : "Just the Facts, Ma'am" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. March 24, 2008.
“Being in a rock n' roll band was like being in a Sherman tank. Nothing got to you. You were surrounded and protected by men.”
“Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people,”

Source : "‘Game of Thrones’ Star Maisie Williams Is Fed Up With Adults Who Underestimate Teens" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2015.
“It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.”

Source : The Boston Globe, June 03, 2006.
“I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.”
“I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.”

Source : Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.139, SteinerBooks
“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.”
“Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them.”

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