"Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain."

-- George Steiner

#Art Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Judgement Quotes

“Prayer is powerful beyond limits when we turn to the Immaculata who is queen even of God's heart.”
“Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos still experience far more unemployment than do whites and Asians, average wages are lower, and household wealth is lower. A smaller percentage of African Americans and Latinos attend, and complete, college, than is the case with whites and Asians, and a higher percentage end up in prison. All of these are indicators of massive disparities in opportunity, and these disparities are mirrored in poverty data.”
“I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one story, over and over. Like most children, they believe in an easily identifiable good and evil, and like most children, they are capable of unthinkable cruelty.”
“Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree”
“If you want to touch the hearts of people you can't do that with newspapers or with radio, you have to do it with TV.”
“It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes.”
“Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.”
“We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.”

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