"Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do."

-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#Running Quotes #Hair Quotes #Sweat Quotes

“Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be solely a vehicle for some sort of self-conscious evangelism.”
“Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.”
“Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.”
“Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.”
“There is no moment where you can rest and think: 'Wonderful, I have that job now. I'm going to spend five years here.' There's a constant judgment on your work that's very strongly related to what you are.”

Source : "Clémence Poésy interview: Casting a spell". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2010.
“The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.”
“Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.”

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