Bessie Head on skins
Bessie Head7 quotes“Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.”
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I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.
Bessie HeadBessie Head People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.
Bessie HeadBessie Head A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.
Bessie HeadBessie Head It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.
Bessie HeadBessie Head Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.
Bessie HeadBessie Head Money will hit me at a big off-period and genius will hit me in starvation, that is, I often get the money when I don’t think I deserve it and have been lolling around for days and days thinking the most abysmal thoughts.
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Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor It’s unconditional; their chemistry is unconditional – forever.
Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett I love you so much that it hurts and that’s the problem I love you so much that it hurts.
Olivia CliffordOlivia Clifford Let’s always bloom, savor and delight others with our beauty.
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My great grandma always told me to drink a lot of milk because it’s good for the skin.
Barbara PalvinBarbara Palvin First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form.
Barton GellmanBarton Gellman [She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don’t weigh anything.
Barry LygaBarry Lyga You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
B.K.S. IyengarB.K.S. Iyengar The evocative power of the drum can be compared to the Trinity. The drum’s frame comes from the trunk of a tree, and that tree has a spirit. It is not dead wood. There is also spirit in the animal skin. If there wasn’t, it would not produce sound. Those, plus the spirit of the person playing become an irresistible force.
Babatunde OlatunjiBabatunde Olatunji Me, when I’m utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody’s home, then I despise my own life – my birth, my upbringing, everything.
Banana YoshimotoBanana Yoshimoto Take control over your skin by using an acne treatment system that actually works: Proactiv+.
Adam LevineAdam Levine The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
Viola DavisViola Davis