"If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!"

-- Naomi Shihab Nye

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“I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that's tended to be pretty bipartisan in nature because of the coalition there exists fortunately around these global health issues. But I don't think my backing, putting a lot of money into political contributions is a way I'm going to try and help improve the world.”
“Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.”
“Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.”
“There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt commit civil disobedience," There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not." What you do is you face the realities of the situation, and decide whether what you're doing will help or hurt the goal you set.”

Source : Source: openvault.wgbh.org
“True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.”
“In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.”
“Being that I'm a tropical black man I don't get to see much snow. When I see snow I go crazy. That's why they call me Sasquatch. There's no Sasquatch found in the snow so I had to go back to my Sasquatchian roots.”
“Whatever you goin' through, could always be much worse, Don't make a mistake, mistakin' your blessings for a curse.”

Source : Song: Welcome To Real Life

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