#om

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#androgynous #easier #energy #experience #female

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#altered #being #claim #despair #ever

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#being #find #hard #i #i think

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#clear #compete #connection #i #lose

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance. ↗

— David Duke

#affirmative #affirmative action #against #college #discrimination

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites. ↗

— David Duke

#black #every #hundred #man #truth

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom. ↗

— George Duke

#freedom #i #my own #own #pay

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them. ↗

— Patty Duke

#breathe #creative #interpret #into #life

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#equal #equality #freedom #rather #slavery

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was? ↗

— Patty Duke

#ago #am #books #close #did