"It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart."

-- Howard Gardner

#Smart Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.”
“We just sent some footage to ABC Primetime, who is doing a segment that alleges to tell our side of the story, and in that, a week before she became ill, there's Eliza Jane at her friend's birthday party, blowing, over and over again, a party horn - the one with the long, curly thing that sticks out when you blow it and retracts when you breathe in - over and over and over again...this child that, a few weeks later, would be said to have died of fatal pneumonia.”
“I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from our vocabulary and is never heard on stage. . . . I'm better at writing than I am at organizing [political action]. SLAUGHTER CITY is my small contribution. If it gives people a voice it is worth something. So often we forget what we are no longer hearing.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested.”
“Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?”
“As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in order to capture that reality, they go to dangerous and tragic places at the expense of their lives. I see them as the conscience of our humanity; they represent for me what is left of our humanity.”

Source : Interview, brooklynrail.org. April 6, 2009.
“True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.”

Source : Tobias Smollett, John Moore (1872). “The Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. With Memoirs of His Life: to which is Prefixed A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance”, p.189
“By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.”

Source : Manning Marable (1995). “Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics”, p.202, Verso

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