"Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class."

-- Nikki Giovanni

#Struggle Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Class Quotes

“The careful choice of words, the scrubbing of language, the calculated images we presented to the external audiences - those were all major parts of my daily life over there. So, some of that is going to seep over into what I showed in the novel and - more importantly - how I showed it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.”
“She'll soon forget." "Caddy," said Saffron impatiently, "she is headmistress of the private school! She's probably never forgotten anything in her whole life!”

Source : Hilary McKay (2002). “Saffy's Angel”, p.64, Simon and Schuster
“Yet [Georgia O'Keeffe ] always stayed true to her vision, and was at times uncompromising in following the path she saw for herself.”
“If Israel sent the IDF three kilometers into Lebanon and started digging trenches and building bunkers it would make news all over the world. But Syria does it and everyone shrugs. Hardly anyone even knows it happened at all.”
“I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.”
“Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.”
“Religion: A lot of fanciful ideas inspired by wishful thinking. Science: A lot of logical ideas based on the best evidence available. Which should we have faith in?”

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