"Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as the mongoose. And strangely enough, when we put our human concerns into their proper, small place, we can turn our attention completely to the small things. To a cricket hidden in a crack of lava. To each other."

-- Sallie Tisdale

#Attention Quotes #Littles Quotes #Lava Quotes

“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.”
“Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.”
“I'm no prophet and I'm no genius, but I can only tell you what I seem to know. As a fan of television and the movies, I think it's all for the better.”
“I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.”
“You want to make a big bold difference in this world? Then pray big, bold prayers.”
“Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.”
“I don't know whether Jews can behave like good Christians, but Muslim Arabs certainly cannot.”
“Blues are the songs of despair,”

Source : Mahalia Jackson, Evan McLeod Wylie (1966). “Movin' on Up”, New York : Hawthorn Books

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