"Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.""

-- Joan Didion

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.”

Source : Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.462, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about”

Source : "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 08, 2002.
“But I think schools also ought to be fair to all views. Because, frankly, Darwinism is not an established scientific fact. It is a theory of evolution, that's why it's called the theory of evolution.”
“We all use dishwashers every day and yet none of us would say that we're experts on dishwashers, but somehow we all think we're experts on movies.”
“Even though I'm not actually performing in the works, I love the theatrical and have this fan relationship to showbiz. And one of the things that's a disappointment to me about art is that it's always a memory of something that happened. So I try to get as intimate or as real as possible.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When you don't forgive you permit your enemies to live rent free in your head -evict them today.”
“A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.”
“Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.”

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