"The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice."

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Source : Judy Grahn (1984). “Another mother tongue: gay words, gay worlds”, Beacon Press (MA)

Judy Grahn

#Leadership Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Artist Quotes

“I'm living for myself, everything I do is to achieve my goals, so I'd love to stop caring so much about what I want by then and maybe focus on a bigger picture.”
“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.”
“I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.”
“Dealing with politically-engaged writers of color like Abdellatif LaÃ¢bi and Rashid Boudjedra - who ran away from school aged sixteen to fight against the French in the Algerian war - first requires convincing an editor to take a chance on them, which very few like to do these days.”
“Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.”
“The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.”
“If God can't get the attention of the church house, He's certainly not going to stop by the White House.”
“Today, we know that time travel need not be confined to myths, science fiction, Hollywood movies, or even speculation by theoretical physicists. Time travel is possible. For example, an object traveling at high speeds ages more slowly than a stationary object. This means that if you were to travel into outer space and return, moving close to light speed, you could travel thousands of years into the Earth's future.”

Source : Clifford A. Pickover (1999). “Time: A Traveler's Guide”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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