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Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.


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Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.



I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.

I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.



The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth



But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.



The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.



Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.



When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.



The revolution begins at home.

The revolution begins at home.



Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.



The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.

The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.





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Can’t Stop Loving You (Italo – Dance Mix), , , was the 2nd soundtrack I ever created and still magical to my heart ….I love it more than words can ever say, , , endless beauty

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Fifteen and on the brink, that’s what Mum says about me. On the brink. Like it’s the continental shelf or something. On the brink of what? I want to yell. A rich and meaningful life? Disaster?

Fifteen and on the brink, that’s what Mum says about me. On the brink. Like it’s the continental shelf or something. On the brink of what? I want to yell. A rich and meaningful life? Disaster?



Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.

Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.



I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.



I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.



"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.



It appears to me that men are trying to speak for God instead of letting God speak for himself.

It appears to me that men are trying to speak for God instead of letting God speak for himself.



This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.




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