"How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out."

-- Michaela Angela Davis

#Growing Up Quotes #Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Name a sexual disease, she got it like Sam Goody.”
“Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.”
“for the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of. ... I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I.”

Source : Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Benson, Carrie Catt (2007). “America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer”, p.98, Applewood Books
“They are not long, the days of wine and roses.”
“...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.”

Source : Jonah Lehrer (2010). “How We Decide”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it didÂ notÂ cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.”
“I'm a panicked karaoke participant because I am always searching for a song in the moment. I don't have my go to song. I will be driving along and I will be like, "That should be my karaoke song!" and then I forget what song it is.”
“I think the moment I discovered I definitely wanted to act was when I saw a play alone by myself when I was fourteen. Maybe it was a Moliere play? I discovered the atmosphere of the theater, and I knew I wanted to be an actor.”

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