"Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities."

-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Communication Quotes #Reality Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho[ugh] popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho[ugh] I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.”

Source : "The World’s Famous Orations", Vol. III, Great Britain: I (710–1777) by William Jennings Bryan, 1906.
“One judges an epoch as much by its Art as by its customs.”

Source : Letter to Sophie Brzeska-Savage Messiah By Harold Stanley (Jim) Ede, 1931.
“What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you're sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.'”
“Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.”
“There has to be a woman, but not much of a one. A good horse is much more important.”
“When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.”
“Either attempt it not, or succeed.”
“Freedom for the working class!”

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