"If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?"

-- Zora Neale Hurston

#Yellow Quotes #People Quotes #Black Quotes

“People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights.”
“We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may be waiting at the end of our endurance and effort, there is great and irreplaceable aliveness in the steps along the way.”

Source : "Approaching Integrity" by Mark Nepo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.
“I always thought Woody Harrelson is quite a persuasive guy. He's the kind of guy who can call you up in the middle of the night and tell you, 'Let's all go get a donut!' And you're thinking, 'It's the middle of the night,' but somehow you still get up and go get a donut.”
“Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.”

Source : "Ten Things We Shouldn't Have Done". Book by Sarah Mlynowski, 2011.
“My dad always told me: 'Stop and look back and appreciate what you've done; stop and smell the flowers.'”
“The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one anotherâ€™s lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly.”

Source : "Failing the Voight-Kampff" by Dylan Ratigan, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2013.
“Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter.”
“Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?”

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