Although the model here is attractive, the beauty of this portrait is in the composition of the photograph. Kudos to the photographer! I admire your skill and creativity.
Remi Alade Chester
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“You might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physically or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
— Bruce Lee (1940-1973)
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…..children are not idiots. They hear us and see us. They watch television, they listen to radio, they read magazines, they live in our world. So very early on, they know what we think. And often enough, it becomes what they think, too.
……A few months ago, a white teacher brought a black girl up to me as I was preparing to give a speech. The teacher wanted me to talk to her. She doesn’t think she is beautiful, said the teacher, because she is dark. I asked the girl if this was true and in a soft voice, with eyes averted, she said that it was.
And man, what do you say to that? How do you explain the psychology of self-loathing and the futility of judging oneself by someone else’s beauty standards, and the cumulative psychological weight of 400 years of being told you are not good enough and the need to embrace and love and value yourself just as you are?
…….We are over 40 years beyond the civil rights movement, 40 years beyond a burst of pride and racial consciousness that transfigured our very understanding of what it means to be black….
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Sri Krishna (3228-3100 BCE)
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accessing the inner-world through meditation
“The trouble with a secret life is that it is very frequently a secret from the person who lives it and not at all a secret for the people he encounters.”
- James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Find the light at the end of the tunnel