quotes
"You feel depressed and crazy because in every historical human culture known to anthropology, people sang together, danced together, and ate food together, and you don't sing and you don't dance and you eat alone in the dark....
You are a singing ape and you are meant to know fifty dances by heart, which hilltops are sacred, and the names of every
... See more"I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are." — Toni Morrison
"Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes
... See more“No more exploitation, no more greed,
No more hunger, no more need,
The people work together, for each other, And build a world where all can prosper.”
—THE LOVE OF REVOLUTION, Tristan Graham
"No altar, no belief, no holy book... have ever been able to reconcile the rich and the poor, the exploiter and the exploited. And if Jesus himself had to take the whip to chase them from his temple, it is indeed because that is the only language they hear.— Thomas Sankara
"|'ll read you something pretty:
People are unreasonable, illogical and self centered; love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, alternative motives; do good anyway. The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shut down by the smallest people with the smallest minds; think big anyway. What you spend years building
... See more"To be human, to be fully human, is to need music and derive nourishment from the music you hear." —
Bob Moog
"The thing is, people only have charm through their madness... that is what is so difficult to understand. The real charm of a person is the side where they lose control a little, it is the side where they no longer really know where they are... That doesn't mean they fall apart, on the contrary, these are people who don't fall apart... but if you
... See more"Keep awake, alive, new.
Perform the paradox of being hard and yet soft. Survive without calcification of the tender membranes. Be a poet. Be alive." — Tennessee Williams