"If your dream only includes you, it's too small."

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Source : Twitter post from Feb 27, 2015

Ava DuVernay

“Things happen in my physical body, in my relationships. I've buried three fathers and a mother. I've had a doctor tell me I've got a tumor in my brain. And when you face those situations, they transform you, they change you, and when you're able to break through them to a new level, they allow you to have gifts to give other people.”
“The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.”

Source : Quoted in David Pickering Brewer'sTwentieth-Century Music (1994).
“Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.”
“Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things”
“I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.”
“At some point, the dollar has to give. You can't just keep printing money, and monetizing debt, and buying bonds, without the dollar imploding.”
“We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.”
“There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream.”

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