"Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism."

-- Claude McKay

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“I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.”
“We're having too good a time today. We ain't thinking about tomorrow.”
“The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something... Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it... Nothing is important... so everything is important.”

Source : Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.126, Penguin
“We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.”
“Sister Eliza R. Snow was given a charge from the prophet Brigham Young to help lift and teach the sisters of the Church. She â€œtaught that individual women could receive inspiration to guide them in their personal lives, their families, and their Church responsibilities. She said: â€˜Tell the sisters to go forth and discharge their duties, in humility and faithfulness and the Spirit of God will rest upon them and they will be blest in their labors. Let them seek for wisdom instead of power and they will have all the power they have wisdom to exercise.â€™”
“If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.”
“Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.”
“The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.”

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