"Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much."

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Source : WhiteWalls magazine, Vol. 36-38, p. 45, 1995.

Lucy R. Lippard

#Travel Quotes #People Quotes #Energy Quotes

“Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.”
“Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.”
“I do not believe that hating any man solves the problem of race or any other problem. ... I firmly believe that hatred, like anger, works on the physical glandular system as well as on the moral fiber of our nation, and in doing so, can bring no positive good.”

Source : Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham (1990). “How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature”, p.23, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.”
“I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.”
“When you hear somebody with balls, that's me.”
“Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation”

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