"For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights."

-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Rights Quotes #Issues Quotes #Long Quotes

“I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.”
“If one... struggles for what is beyond the most proper, doing not in accordance with one's natural ability, acting not with one's genuine feeling, one will surely get into trouble.”
“Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over will always stand between us and life. When we don't grieve, a part of us becomes caught in the past like Lot's wife who, because she looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt.”
“I write-down to speak-up.”
“When do you think people die? When they're shot through the heart with a pistol? ...No. When they have an uncurable disease? ...No. When they drink soup made from a poisonous mushroom? No! When they are forgotten! Even if I die, my dream will come true. The hearts of the people will be cured..!”
“Iâ€™ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I donâ€™t want to go on.”
“One person can't know or like everything, so an editor needs collaborators whose opinions and expertise he values and can trust.”
“[Kurt] Vonnegut was a writer whose great gift was that he always seemed to be talking directly to you. He wasn't writing, he wasn't showing off, he was just telling you, nobody else, what it was like, what it was all about. That intimacy made him beloved. We can admire the art of John Updike or Philip Roth, but we love Vonnegut.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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