"Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?"

-- Louis Farrakhan

#Circles Quotes #White Quotes #Black Quotes

“Rather than becoming the best, I want to become a singer with meaning.”
“More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.”
“Beer is prose. Wine is poetry.”
“I find nothing more depressing than optimism.”
“Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.”
“I must settle for freedom in this modern time”

Source : Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.131, Bloomsbury Publishing
“You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.”
“The moment the doctor said he wanted to do a biopsy, in my heart I thought I'd probably got it. But I also know a lot of people who have also had prostate cancer, so I had a reasonably good idea what to expect.”

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