"To even envision a post-racist society is contingent upon understanding the offensive, dense, and wildly contradictory nature of our racist past and present. Racechanges should be encouragement enough for readers to begin that task."

-- Gayle Pemberton

#Encouragement Quotes #Past Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.”
“The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been fascinated by.”
“There's no correlation between what the public likes and what I'm after. I'm in a different world.”
“It's not how we fall that defines us as Christians. It's how we get up again.”

Source : Karen Kingsbury (2010). “Unlocked”, p.198, Harper Collins
“I'm into scales right now.”
“You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.”
“The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.”
“It's like if people don't see you on TV every day, they think you're in cryogenics somewhere.”

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