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“I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.”

Want Culture House Wish My Own Land Wall Window Familiar Shakes Permit Other Cultures

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land”

Men I Can America My Own Existence Land Mountain Appreciate Native Native Land

Author:Martin Delany

“When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.”

Moments Hands Seems My Own Land Despair Native Alas Recollection Native Land

Author:William Cowper

“I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.”

Humans Reason Problem Form My Own Land Subjects Approach Research West Species Indian Rejects Divides Homo Sapiens Variables Classification Snail Differentiation

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Music has always been a location for me to run to, whether it's through someone else's song or my own. I can observe my own planet from this foreign land and things make sense within the telescopic lens of song.”

I Can Running Song My Own Land Planets Make Sense Location Lenses Foreign Lands

Author:Jon Foreman

“This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.”

Knows Giving Littles Dream America Names My Own Pieces Land Give Me Towns Popcorn Little Towns

Book:The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life

Source: The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life

“My job is my own only land.”

Home Jobs My Own Land

Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

“My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist tests on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything. Now that I am older, I can see that feeling terrified is how you recognize what you need. Terror encourages you to jump, even when you don't know if you will ever land.”