"The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us."

-- Audre Lorde

#Focus Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Revolutionary Quotes

“Salt is the only product that changes cuisine. There's a big difference between food that has salt and food without it. If you don't believe that, ask people who can't eat salt.”

Source : "Ferran Adrià: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2010.
“Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.”
“If thou canst believe, all things are possible.”
“So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.”
“God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.”
“When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience of the upright, to become resigned to it is wicked. Although the evil flaunts itself before our eyes, and no remedy is in sight, we must go and seek a remedy. In the creation of the God of Justice, evil can be but a transitory state.”

Source : Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs
“I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.”

Source : "Closer". www.imdb.com. 2004.
“People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.”

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