"Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best."

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Source : "I just wanted to be the best in the world" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2001.

Judith Jamison

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“What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.”
“Bears," I muttered, adding a new fear to the pile. "That would be just her luck, wouldn't it? Stray bear in town. OF course it would head straight for Bella.”
“I'm telling you, until I shaved my head, I never realized how much heat is lost through the top of the head. I walk out in winter and it feels like I have an ice pack on my head. Unbelievable.”
“Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it.”
“If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.”
“And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.”
“The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (2016). “The Complete Works of Ernest Bramah (Including Max Carrados Mysteries & Kai Lung Fantasy Series): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Bravo of London, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, The Secret of Dunstan's Tower, The Missing Witness Sensationäó_”, p.1330, e-artnow
“Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.”

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