"Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be moved. And really what you're seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you're sleepwalking through your daily life."

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Source : "The Art of Stillness". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 4, 2015.

Pico Iyer

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“Sometimes I have wished my insults were slaps or lashes; I've wanted to hit people in the face and make them see, if only for a day, what I see each day I help people.”
“On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.”
“A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.”

Source : "Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism".
“The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.”
“I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.”
“The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.”

Source : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub
“I want people to know that there is nothing more badass than being yourself.”
“I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often I've had satisfaction there. When things go well in production, on opening there's no nicer feeling in the world-what could be nicer than watching an audience respond? You can't that from a book. It's a fine feeling to walk into the theater and see living people respond to something you've done.”

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