"The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage."

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Source : "Manning Marable obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2011.

Manning Marable

#Running Quotes #Creativity Quotes #Political Quotes

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
“Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.”
“What happens in Senate fight club stays in Senate fight club.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“A lot of guys just got off the flight yesterday. There's no excuses but that's the reality.”
“Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an extent the faces of Australians. Australia is the small house. Ownership of one in a fenced allotment is as inevitable and unquestionable a goal of the average Australian as marriage.”
“It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are?”
“With Material for the Spine, I am interested in alloying a technical approach to the processes of improvisation. It is a system for exploring interior and exterior muscles of the back. It aims to bring consciousness to the dark side of the body, that is, the â€˜otherâ€™ side, or the inside, those sides not much self-seen, and to submit sensations from them to the mind for consideration.”
“It feels like every movie I've ever done, I always expected to have rocks thrown through my windows or have people protesting and it never happens and so I wasn't really ever that worried just so long as it wasn't mean spirited.”

Source : "Director George Ratliff Interview SALVATION BOULEVARD". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 13, 2011.

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