"It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power."

-- Black Elk

#Order Quotes #Vision Quotes #Earth Quotes

“When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet: And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply I may forget.”
“Every Sailor has the potential to lead," said Mullen, "I don't care if it's a seaman recruit or someone higher ranking than myself. Where there's a will, there's a way.”
“If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery. Spirituals, rap music - that would be the space we'd find American landays in.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.”

Source : "The mass incarceration of the Black community: an interview with Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow’". Interview with Minister of Information JR Valrey, sfbayview.com. April 4, 2012.
“I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.”

Source : "Beasts of the Southern Wild: 'I didn't expect people to like it'" by Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
“I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.”

Source : Source: www.afb.org
“It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.”
“To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.”

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