Shagun Tripathi

“India, materially poor for the last two centuries, yet has an inexhaustible fund of divine wealth; spiritual
“skyscrapers” may occasionally be encountered by the wayside, even by worldly men like this policeman.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“The gesture is the incarnation of the verb; that is, an action is a thought made manifest.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Archer

“Like any fine artist, he controlled the tension of the audience’s longing. You desired, unwittingly, a certain kind of roll or climb, or a return to a certain portion of the air, and he fulfilled your hope slantingly, like a poet, or evaded it until you thought you would burst, and then fulfilled it surprisingly, so you gasped and cried out.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“The institution of slavery was, for a quarter millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines who existed solely for the profit of their owners, to be worked as long as the owners desired, who had no rights over their bodies or loved ones, who could be mortgaged, bred, won in a bet, given as wedding presents, bequeathed to heirs, sold away from spouses or children to cover an owner’s debt or to spite a rival or to settle an estate. They were regularly whipped, raped, and branded, subjected to any whim or distemper of the people who owned them. Some were castrated or endured other tortures too grisly for these pages, tortures that the Geneva Conventions would have banned as war crimes had the conventions applied to people of African descent on this soil. Before there was a United States of America, there was enslavement. Theirs was a living death passed down for twelve generations.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents