"I can remember, I think it was 1967, sitting in the First Unitarian Church in Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, and seeing Phil Levine come out on the little stage. He sat on the edge and said, "You know, sometimes it's hard not to hate my country for the way I feel, at times, but I won't let that happen." And then he read, "They Feed They Lion," this incredibly powerful, incantatory poem that was inspired in part by the burning of Detroit in 1967 and the riots that followed."

--

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

Sam Hamill

#Country Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Hate Quotes

“We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important number of children who abandon their studies because of the abuses they're subject to by teachers and their own parents.”
“They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.”
“How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.”

Source : Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.
“It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.”

Source : William Lyon Mackenzie King, John English, John O. Stubbs (1977). “Mackenzie King: Widening the Debate”
“We doin it big. Look at what I done. Look at where I'm is. It's only just begun.”
“Will our Philosophy to later Life Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth, Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?”
“Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.”
“Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.”

You may also like: