"This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the human body. The embittered art of the twentieth century is perishing as a result of this ugly hate, for art is fruitless without love. In the East art has collapsed because it has been knocked down and trampled upon, but in the West the fall has been voluntary, a decline into a contrived and pretentious quest where the artist, instead of attempting to reveal the divine plan, tries to put himself in the place of God."

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Art Quotes #Hate Quotes #Fall Quotes

“The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.”

Source : Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.165, Routledge
“Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown colony in 1619, a year before the Mayflower landed. But that choice has never been left up to us.”

Source : Clarence Page (1997). “Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity”, Harper Perennial
“Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.”
“I think particularly in music, popularity os a very fickle thing. You're only as good as your last song.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.”
“To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.”
“The conqueror and king in each of us is the . . . Knower of truth. . . . Let that Knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.”
“Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.”

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