"When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us."

-- Yannick Noah

#Moving Quotes #Inspire Quotes #Doe Quotes

“You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.”
“I've never been one like, "Oh, these are my songs" - that was done out of necessity, because there was no one to help. I have 90 percent of it written; that way, we can go on the road, be tight and have it ready to go for next year. I know I said I didn't have a grand design, but I think it's going to be like Marvin Gaye meets The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“No one can go back, but everyone can go forward. And tommorow, when the Sun rises, all you will have to say to yourself is: I am going to think of this day as the first day of my life.”
“I'm always looking for something different to do at the gym.”
“By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.”
“Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate”
“It is better to know what to fear than to say 'no fear.'”
“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.”

Source : Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.15, Penguin

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