"We cannot sit around and talk about the beloved community."

-- Cleveland Sellers

#Community Quotes #Civil Rights Quotes #Beloved Quotes

“We South Vietnamese, we are very concerned about the ah, the fact that the communists are - were very shrewd in trying to take advantage of the American presence in South Vietnam to make the propaganda that they were the only one who fought for the independence of the country and against the, only foreigners, first the French and after that the Americans.”
“I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even time... all dedicated to the most beautiful of the arts and sciences.”
“Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent...When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?”
“The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.”
“Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.”
“On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment.”
“The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.”

Source : Gwendolen Webster, Kurt Schwitters (1997). “Kurt Merz Schwitters: A Biographical Study”
“There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children”

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