Slaverys Descendants Quotes & Sayings

We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives ... — James Salter

I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life. — Toi Derricotte

You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything. — Ben Van Berkel

Ground. They entered it in one of its lowest points, and drove for some time through a beautiful wood — Jane Austen

I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. — Natalie Dormer

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude. — Robert Anton Wilson

On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how my people are presented. We show a great deal by what we put on our bodies. — Meryl Streep

He picked at the thick rims of dirt under his nails. This decline, both of himself and his surroundings, was almost to be welcomed. In a way he was forcing himself down these steepening gradients, like someone descending into a forbidden valley. The dirt on his hands, his stale clothes and declining hygiene, his fading interest in food and drink, all helped to expose a more real version of himself. — J.G. Ballard

The greatest field of photography, for the literary interpretation of life, consists, to my mind, in its latent power to create, as it were, death for a single second. Any thing or person is, at will, made to die for a moment of time so immeasurably small that the return to life is effected without consciousness of the great adventure. (1928) — Pierre Mac Orlan