Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?
BEAH RICHARDS
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Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.
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Beah RichardsBeah Richards For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
Beah RichardsBeah Richards There are a lot of movies out there that I would hate to be paid to do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to women to change their roles. They are going to have to write the stuff and do it. And they will.
Beah RichardsBeah Richards Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn’t help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Some women will have you look at life differently.
Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be. It is his legal right, and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal right.
Samuel GompersSamuel Gompers I don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
Bashar al-AssadBashar al-Assad The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.
Mary Catherine BatesonMary Catherine Bateson What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George EliotGeorge Eliot We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.
Aung San Suu KyiAung San Suu Kyi Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin