“ we lift our gaze, not to what stands between us, but what stands before us.”
activist, poet, poetry, writer
“Poetry is not a luxury”
“ Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.”
“… keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.”
“ Even though the Wizard is on his way out, Oz still exists.”
“The imagination is not a state. It is the human existence itself.”
“Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating”
“A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.”
“After the past five years of hatred, of vitriol, I know what to do with the rest of our lives. It’s to elect moral, ethical, decent human beings to be the parental body at the dinner table of the nation of the world.”
“At This Moment, We Are All On Fifth Avenue”
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
“Art is just a container you pour yourself into.”
“ I do believe that as much as it is the writer’s job to write well, it is the listener’s job to listen well.”
painter, Quotes for Now, Spanish
“the sleep of reason produces monsters.”
“ Where has the America I love, and that the world used to respect, gone? How did we allow this to happen? And what can we do to stop it?”
journalist, Pulitzer Prize, Quotes for Now
In Memory: “In times to come, when we are all gone, people not yet born will walk in the sunshine of their own days because of what women and men did at this hour to feed the sick, to heal and comfort.”
“There was always just enough virtue in this republic to save it; sometimes none to spare.”
academic, cleric, Quotes for Now
“Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.”
actor, Quotes for Now, South African, writer
“ Trump paid $750 in taxes and $130,000 to a porn star, which means if the I.R.S. wants to get money from Trump, you guys know what you got to do. ”
Brazilian, philosopher, Quotes for Now
“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”
“…the time of reading, the time defined by the author’s language resonating in the self, is not the world’s time, but the soul’s.”
author, professor, Quotes for Now
“[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]… nothing that comes next can change or undercut what she did”
“What you’re trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and…”
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”
“I confess I do not believe in time … And the highest enjoyment of timelessness – in a landscape selected at random – is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love.”
“McConnell is transforming the federal judiciary from sometimes-defenders of the poor, immigrants and people of color into the Praetorian Guard of corporations, the wealthy, and those whose cultural and racial privileges make them, at best, oblivious to their collective responsibility to all Americans.”
actor, composer, Director, movie quotes
“That’s what all we are. Amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.”
“Justice Ginsburg would’ve said don’t be angry, get to work and take action.”
“I guess the next pandemic is a pandemic of hypocrisy“
In Memory: “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
“If you want to know what’s really going on in a society or ideology follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty…”
“Captain the ship is sinking…. It’s up to you, it’s up to me / To make her worthy to go back to sea”
“we don’t have to accept the world that we’re born into as something that is fixed and impermeable. When you zoom in, it’s just atoms just like us. And they move all the time. And through energy and force of will and intention and focus, we can actually change it. Move it.”
”Art transcends all human boundaries. It is a gift of almost inexplicable, magical energy. When our hearts, through our senses, are touched by art, our lives are enhanced.”
“In the age of minority rule, a Supreme Court justice appointed by a president who got fewer votes is confirmed by a party in the Senate that got fewer votes, to validate policies opposed by most Americans.”
“I’m no stranger to people hating what I do, and liking what I do. That doesn’t faze me.”
“Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do…Sanity means tying it to your own actions.”
“Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits…”
“Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail, or any carrier or conveyance carrying the mail, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.“
composer, English, Guitarist, musician
In Memory: “Passion and the desire to communicate, that is the key.”
“Beautiful things don’t ask for attention”
“Life is it’s own answer… Live as well as possible. Expect no more. Destroy nothing. Humble nothing. Look for fault in nothing. Leave unsullied and untouched all that is beautiful.‘
“…only there, in the silences of the painter or the writer can reality be reordered, reworked and made to show its significant side…”
In Memory: “I didn’t go to acting school, but I’ve been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that’s the best school there is.”
”From my viewpoint, the value of the worn paperback with your initial impressions in the margins of a book you love is far more valuable than the first edition with the good dust jacket.”
“When you say something directly, it’s simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.”
In Memory: “Have a go. Anybody can do it.”
In Memory: “Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself.”
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