"See, I donâ€™t expect to win a prize for stoic control and dignity at mourning time. Death deserve tantrums. Beating back shocked indignation, kicks in the groin, stones, classified unacceptable, not to be tolerated, not to be wooed, not to be conspired with. Only then can music, dance, movies, plays, rap be about life. Only then can life be cherished and adored."

-- Ruby Dee

#Rap Quotes #Winning Quotes #Play Quotes

“A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.”
“I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech”
“I think writers always want to be taken seriously as writers, but it's not always possible. There's a difference between persistence and banging your head against the same wall a hundred times. Sometimes it's better to look away from the wall and see what else might be available that's easier.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“There's no right or wrong - I think people can be messy in a very soulful way. The point in the end is to make people feel something, and there's so many different ways to do that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.”
“My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.”
“Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are.”

Source : Christina Baldwin (2010). “Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story”, p.78, New World Library
“The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a photographic culture that's not conditioned to think in terms of symbol.”

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