"Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there."

-- Toni Cade Bambara

#Writing Quotes #Streets Quotes

“How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like some sort of strange mythical beast that's part lion, part dragon. You know at the bottom is a democracy, and then it's an imperial power around the world.”
“I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself, as an actor.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I've always had an affinity for growing things.”
“I love the intensity of the Psalms. No-one ever sounds bored about God or about life in the Psalms.”
“Our motto is just to play the whole 48 minutes. We are here to play it from start to finish. Things will go up and down. We will make runs and they will make runs. But we just keep playing.”
“[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.”

Source : Jessica Hagedorn (2013). “Dogeaters: A Novel”, p.132, Open Road Media
“I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small ProvenÃ§al landscape. We sold it. If you're going to have a van Gogh it should be a really good van Gogh.”
“The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhonâ€™s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects, such as denying the enemy the quality of being human and declaring him to be an outlaw of humanity; and a war can thereby be driven to the most extreme inhumanity.”

Source : Carl Schmitt (2008). “The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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