"A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for."

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Josephine Baker

#Dance Quotes #African American Quotes #Care Quotes

“On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.”
“"Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes that liberty ultimately resides in our individual attitudes and actions. In our increasingly authoritarian world, I especially hope that teenagers and young adults will read it - and then persuade their peers, parents and teachers to follow suit.”
“There was a great director who directed a picture that I wrote who barred me from the set quite appropriately and said, "I'm sorry, Jim. When you're directing, you don't need to know everything. You need the illusion that you do." And, you know, and I WOULD be there behind him trying to signal the actors in, you know, in a way I wasn't even aware of.”

Source : "Dreams on Spec". Documentary, 2007.
“Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come into full ralization of your own awakened interior powers is to be able to condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it.”

Source : Ralph Waldo Trine (2014). “In Tune with the Infinite”, p.4, Courier Corporation
“I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?”
“Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.”
“If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?”
“When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.”

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