"Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly willing to lay down my life for my Constitution, but I am not willing to take a life for it or any other reason because I think killing people is counterproductive."

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

Sam Hamill

#Thinking Quotes #Speaks Out Quotes #People Quotes

“I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.”
“I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.”
“Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.”
“I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.”
“Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.”
“Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.”
“Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret”
“For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.”

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