"A stream cannot rise higher than its source."

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Source : Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.11, Courier Dover Publications

Anna Julia Cooper

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“For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.”
“Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game.”
“It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.”
“I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.”
“The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.”
“There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”
“All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.”

Source : Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.474, Open Road Media

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