"From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. That's always kind of the focus of the songs that I write for myself."

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Jonny Diaz

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Focus Quotes

“The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.”

Source : Cecil Day Lewis (1969). “The Poetic Image”
“Everyone makes mistakes - mistakes are correctable.”
“My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African American, so I'm pretty mixed. My nickname in high school was United Nations. I was fine with it, even though I identify as a black woman. People don't realize it hurts my feelings when someone looks at my hair or my eyes, and says, "But you're not actually black. You're black, but you're not black black, because your eyes are green." I'm like, "What? No, no, I'm definitely black." Even some of my closest friends have said that. It's been a bit touchy for me.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.”
“No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be no lack of poets and preachers and essayists and philosophers to invent the necessary reasons and gild the infamy with righteousness. To this righteousness there is, of course, never an adequate reply. Thus a war to end poverty becomes an unanswerable enterprise. For who can decently be for poverty? To even debate whether the war will end poverty becomes an exhibition of ugly pragmatism and the sign of an ignoble mind.”

Source : John Thomas Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”, p.122, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.”
“So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.”
“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.”

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