"My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them."

-- Russell Simmons

#Artist Quotes #Creative Quotes #World Quotes

“I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years.”
“Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

Source : "No Name in the Street". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1972.
“All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.”
“I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.”
“A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.”
“I don't care what you say about me if I don't find you physically attractive.”

Source : Quoted in John McCabe, George M. Cohan (1973)
“Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him.”

Source : Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company
“Once our idea of heaven meant all the dead relatives waiting on the kept lawn of the many mansions as if, suddenly sinless, they had nothing to do.”

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