"They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians"

-- Norman Finkelstein

#Hero Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Used Quotes

“Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. And this new sense of sin only contributes further to the enervation of leisure, for the rich as well as the poor. The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.”

Source : "Art and Culture: Critical Essays". Book by Clement Greenberg, pp. 31-32: "The Plight of Culture" (1953), 1961.
“Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.”
“People complain that life is short,for me it seems very long.”
“Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.”
“Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should”
“Everything is possible for the writer. There isn't anything anyone can tell you that you can't do, and there is no such thing as "getting away with" anything. There's no one to tell you what you can or can't do. You're only limited by the fences you allow yourself to build around yourself, for whatever reason, including fidelity to some idea about literature someone else imposed upon you some time long ago or five minutes ago.”
“I've always felt that if I worked hard enough and continued to refine my craft, while staying curious about our times and our world, I just might have something to contribute.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“If you gotta label me, label me proud.”

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