"There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libÃ©rÃ©?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer."

-- Edwidge Danticat

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Night Quotes

“Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?”
“I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.”
“There's nobody quite as mean as people being mean for Jesus.”
“We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, premature pregnancy, child abuse, chronic dependency on welfare, and education failure.”
“Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.”
“You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop.”
“We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt.”

Source : "The route to a sustainable future". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2005.
“Those human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or because of memories of colonization and migration; this belief must be important for group formation; furthermore it does not matter whether an objective blood relationship exists.”

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