"The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it."

-- Ariana Franklin

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“I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.”
“In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.98, University of Chicago Press
“I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.”
“Without this heart attitude it is exceedingly difficult for us to accept the circumcision of the flesh. Every affection, desire, thought, knowledge, intent, worship, and work of the flesh must go to the cross.”
“Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.”
“If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.”

Source : Sister Souljah (2004). “The Coldest Winter Ever”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
“Bonobos really violate a rule of nature where usually if you're bigger, you're going to be dominant. But here, females are actually smaller. But they're still not dominated by males because they work together.”

Source : "Bonobos". "60 Minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2016.
“Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money.”

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