"They don't want art that might actually change the community. They just want consumers. They don't want people to manufacture things. They'll do the manufacturing, and they just need people to buy it, need youth to buy it."

-- Malik Yusef

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Community Quotes

“Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us.”
“Fisk would take care of it.”
“A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.”
“Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to write a whole story, a whole book. A writer has to be able to look at that story and see whether or not a character works, whether or not a character needs further definition.”
“And make death proud to take us.”
“The life of grace is not an effort on our part to achieve a goal we set ourselves. It is a continually renewed attempt simply to believe that someone else has done all the achieving that is needed and to live in relationship with that person, whether we achieve or not. If that doesn't seem like much to you, you're right: it isn't. And, as a matter of fact, the life of grace is even less than that. It's not even our life at all, but the life of that Someone Else rising like a tide in the ruins of our death.”
“We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.”
“If you can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the steps of usefulness and kindness, God will lead you on to happiness and friendship.”

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