"Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again."

-- Adoniram Judson

#Years Quotes #Twenties Quotes #Obscurity Quotes

“My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.”
“...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.”
“Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.”
“I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left.”
“A lot of it starts with playing instruments and working with other people. Some of the new generation is doing it on computers and they don't have a clue as to how to play anything. That's probably one of the problems. They don't know how to make the melody, go through the chord changes. They're not starting from that same school of thought.”
“Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.”
“We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world where we don’t have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning.”
“We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.”

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