"People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway."

-- Simeon Strunsky

#People Quotes #Library Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.”

Source : Cecil Beaton (1955). “I take great pleasure”
“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.”
“If you censor yourself, if you cannot articulate your needs, if you cannot articulate your priorities, then whatever you do, putting a little cross in a ballot box, etc, does not represent your view. It is an act of desperation.”
“Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read”

Source : Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.
“I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.”

Source : Faith Ringgold, New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.), Akron Art Museum (1998). “Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts”, p.61, Univ of California Press
“While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam [Hussein], because the dictator was so cruel and brutal that no one could criticize or complain. I felt futile and empty. The only solution in Iraq was to run away.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I only want to walk a little longer in the cold blessing of the rain, and lift my face to it.”

Source : Kim Addonizio (2000). “Tell me: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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