"I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to."

-- Gwendolyn Brooks

#Running Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.”
“Now, the first preachers of the Christ evangel preached Christ. They did not, in the first place, preach salvation or sanctification or forgiveness, or judgment or heaven. That does not mean that they did not preach those things: they did; but not in the first place. They preached Christ, and all those things were included in the preaching of Christ.”
“It's not all about acting. It's about giving an art of entertainment to humanity.”
“Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead”
“These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.”
“In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, 'Blizzard of lies,' in which he laid out a series of falsehoods by Hillary Rodham Clinton and declared 'Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady -Â€Â” a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation -Â€Â” is a congenital liar.'”
“The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.”
“The way that I write songs is pretty simple. I hear music first, much like you would when you're scoring a film. I usually hear a soundtrack in my head, and after I get that soundtrack, it tells me what it's about, what it feels like, what the emotion is, and the words come after.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com

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