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"Be nobody's darling;

Be an outcast.

Take the contradictions

Of your life

And wrap around

You like a shawl,

To parry stones

To keep you warm. "

-Alice Walker

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"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Generally, the nerd has plently of time to spend by him or herself, and this can lead to becoming one of two people: One who performs shirtless electric guitar solos on his dorm balcony-played through a Peavey practice amp- as a crowd of onlookers wonder why he's drinking hard lemonade; or one who becomes widely versed in the French language,thus rendering him or her a talented, bilingual master of passion. In my humble opinion, both are tremendously cool."

-Kate Williams, of NYLON magazine.

I don't remember where I found this, but it's muy inspirational. Is it from your blog?

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Miss Hilson

On Rihanna’s and Cassie’s leaked photos:
Keri: My first reaction was “Thank God I never did that.” I never let anybody take any naked pictures of me, so there would be none. I was always one of those over-paranoid people, convinced that someday that I would be living the dream, so as early as middle or high school I wouldn’t do certain things, just in case.

I thought I was the only one who thought like that.

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Turn the lights on

“The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up."- Phylicia Rashaad

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Strut

"Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you, to leave this world better than when you found it." -Wilfred Peterson

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Inspire Me

"I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."- Anais Nin, July 7, 1934

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Tomorrow

"The difficult I can do today. The impossible will take a little longer."- Billie Holiday

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Lights

"There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born there, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size, its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter--the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these trembling cities the greatest is the last--the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh yes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company. . . ."- E. B. White

Grey Gardens

"I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect."- Drew Barrymore

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Conscious

"I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion."-Anni-Frid Lyngstad of ABBA

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Obsess

"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good." -Barbra Streisand

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Fail

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."- Woody Allen

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Believe In Me.

Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock's Lavender Mist.

"A dripping wet canvas covered the entire floor. . . There was complete silence. . . Pollock looked at the painting. Then, unexpectedly, he picked up can and paint brush and started to move around the canvas. It was as if he suddenly realized the painting was not finished. His movements, slow at first, gradually became faster and more dance like as he flung black, white, and rust colored paint onto the canvas. He completely forgot that Lee and I were there; he did not seem to hear the click of the camera shutter. . . My photography session lasted as long as he kept painting, perhaps half an hour. In all that time, Pollock did not stop. How could one keep up this level of activity? Finally, he said 'This is it.'"

- Photographer Hans Namuth, 1950.

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Stack bangles.

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all." -Sam Ewing

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Kanye and Amber Rose.

Outside of Yves Saint Laurent F/W 2009-2010

"I'm about to break the rules but don't tell anybody,

I got something better than school but don't tell anybody..."- K. West

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"It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work 
harder than everybody else."- Jennifer Lopez-CD

Abyss

"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character and that is what keeps him out of the abyss."- Hal Holbrook

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"I love everything that's beautiful."- Ursula Andress

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