Source : William Pickens (1969). “The new Negro: his political, civil, and mental status, and related essays”
#Important Quotes #Insignificant Quotes
“Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.”
“I think the best thing about music is that someone could be writing a song that's so personal, and it tells so many other people's story at the same time. It kind of exemplifies that we are all kind of on the same wave[length] - it's amazing how comforting somebody else's story can be, because we have experienced their story in some way or another, and I can totally relate, and I get to feel that feeling and the expression of that emotion. I get to feel like as a listener, that somebody understands me, which is pretty incredible.”
“If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.”
“It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.”
“The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!”
“Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.”
“The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.”
“[True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills you with awe that you share the same space with something that glorious. Like a sunrise or a clear blue day or the most extraordinary piece of glass. And then suddenly...you have this epiphany that there's more to the world than just you and what you want or even who you are.”
Hubert Harrison Writer
Kelly Miller Mathematician
Mildred H. McAfee
