"It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ..."

-- Gwendolyn Brooks

#Racism Quotes #Age Quotes #Fifty Quotes

“Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.”
“The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.”
“...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.”
“I get mad at my girlfriends when they say things about their neck or something, "My neck is a disaster," and I'm like, "Come on, you don't even believe that." You're taking that from the outside world, you know? You look amazing, you're beautiful, you're 40, you're in the prime of your life. I'm not interested in fighting it at all. I don't think anyone else is wrong for trying to fight it, however.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.”
“For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.”

Source : "John Bercow says he is ready for the Speaker's role" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2009.
“You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.”

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