Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. ”

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude. ”

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway. ”

My earliest memory is of my first day at primary school and the distress of seeing my mother part from me.And being in a room full of strangers - of aliens. I felt that I would never see her again. ”

When I was young, I was shy. ”

I enjoy being in movies, but my heart will always lie with the theatre. ”

In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being. ”

Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything. ”

Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window. ”

Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me. ”