"I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me."

-- Ursula Burns

#New York Quotes #Black Quotes #Sides Quotes

“You can heal your body with food.”
“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.”

Source : "A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought". Book by Lloyd Albert Johnson, 2003.
“Believe me, man, there are people who are going to have way more troubles mentally than I am.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.”

Source : Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i: A Novel”, p.382, St. Martin's Press
“Aside from certain rare cancers, it is not possible to detect any sudden changes in the death rates for any of the major cancers that could be credited to chemotherapy. Whether any of the common cancers can be cured by chemotherapy has yet to be established.”
“This is my favorite part. It starts and ends here. The pebbles shine, the plan worked, Hansel Triumphant. Lesson number one: be sneaky and have a plan. But the stupid boy goes back, makes the rest of the story postscript and aftermath. He shouldnâ€™t have gone back. And this is the second lesson I took from the story: when someone is trying to ditch you, kill you, never go back.”
“I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.”
“I think the idea, first and foremost, is to understand that people may label these characters as villains, but at the end of the day I have to fall in love with the characters that I play. For me, they have to be real characters with real objectives, and driving forces. So they're all different.”

Source : "No Rest for the Wicked: Edi Gathegi Talks 'Criminal Activities', 'The Blacklist' and Playing Villainous Characters". Interview with Aramide Tinubu, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2015.

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