"What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet."

-- August Wilson

#Responsibility Quotes #Writing Quotes #Artist Quotes

“Heroes don't get anything but dead.”
“We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art”
“...I use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax on my entire collection of vintage guitars ... it's the best polish I've ever used...”
“It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.”

Source : "Fictional character: One-Who-Waits". TV Series "Northern Exposure" ("The Big Kiss", 1991), 1990-1995.
“Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... The different artifices by which integration is effected, are changes, not from the known to the unknown, but from forms in which memory does not serve us to those in which it does.”

Source : "Modern Computer Algebra". Book by Joachim von zur Gathen, April 25, 2013.
“The world is perfect the way it is.”
“False religions like Islam who teach that you must worship this way, are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for.”

Source : "Front-Runner For U.S. Senate Seat In Alabama Calls Islam A ‘False Religion" by Christopher Mathias, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2017.
“The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe.”

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