"A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts."

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Source : "Gil Scott-Heron: More Than a Revolution" by Andrew Nosnitsky, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2012.

Gil Scott-Heron

#Hurt Quotes #Community Quotes #Toes Quotes

“Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.”
“Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.”
“The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.”
“You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.”
“In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.”
“River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.”
“I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.”

Source : "Alan Rickman: Truly, deeply appealing". articles.latimes.com. November 20, 2011.
“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”

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