"It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it."

-- Shelby Steele

#Fighting Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Identity Quotes

“I was on my back, looking up at Morelli through cobwebs, and my first thought was that the 7-Eleven victim had exacted revenge on me, and Iâ€™d been stun gunned. The cobwebs cleared, and I discounted stun gunning. â€œWhat happened?â€ I asked Morelli. â€œYou fainted.â€ â€œThatâ€™s ridiculous.â€ â€œI agree, but if someone sent me a dead woman I might faint, too.â€ He was down on one knee, bending over me. â€œAre you ready to get up?â€ â€œI need a moment.â€ â€œDonâ€™t take too long. People will think Iâ€™m proposing.”
“The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what's right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.”
“I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.”

Source : "Proof Of Heaven: A Doctor’s Experience With The Afterlife". www.newsweek.com. October 8, 2012.
“Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.”
“Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.”
“Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.”
“My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it.”
“I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.”

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