"I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity."

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Source : "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

Vijay Prashad

#Uprising Quotes #Preparation Quotes #Important Quotes

“Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game.”
“Once I've designed something, I immediately move on to the next thing.”
“It will be a shame if either side lose, and that applies to both sides.”
“One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered.”
“If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both.”
“The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.”
“During the process of writing the book, I had this experience that was telling for me. I got it and the basic idea and got the plots and everything, but I wasn't sure who the audience was. I exist in this other world - in the book publishing and magazine world of people who would make fun of this project. We were driving home after two weeks in Maine, and we stopped in a gas station in Massachusetts and saw that Snooki had just been arrested. It was a surreal moment. My last few weeks were spent trying to get in this person's head, and there she was in on the cover of the New York Post .”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.”

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