Disadvantaged

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college. ~Chaka Fattah

This Novel

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ~Dorothy Parker

Learning

Always keep learning. It keeps you young. ~Patty Berg

Dance

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it. ~Isadora Duncan

Health Nuts

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. ~Redd Foxx

Happy New Year!

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes. ~Elias Canetti

Be Thankful

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. ~Buddha

Confidence

Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence. ~Rosalynn Carter

Piece of Music

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely. ~Florent Schmitt

Love

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
~James Baldwin

Merry Christmas!

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ~Washington Irving

Home

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. ~Maya Angelou

Happy Winter Solstice

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. ~Andrew Wyeth

A Man's Heart

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ~Robert Byrne

For Love

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love. ~Margaret Atwood

Rush Hour

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves? ~Robin Williams

Mask

Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face. ~Faith Ringgold

Exploration

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. ~Ansel Adams

Behind...

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time. ~Fred Brooks

Success

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead. ~Imogen Cunningham

Both Ends

Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb

African Women

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence. ~Wangari Maathai

Courage

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. ~Ruth Gordon

Misery

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Caricature

If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed. ~Mordecai Richler

Tea

Tea...is a religion of the art of life. ~Okakura Kakuzō

Inner Voice

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something. ~Meredith Monk

Idealism

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

As A Woman

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. ~Virginia Woolf

Like Grasses

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. ~Toru Takemitsu

Spirit

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained. ~Nikki Giovanni

Sometime

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. ~Dr. Robert H. Goddard

Subtle

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not. ~Annie Leibovitz

Social Change

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidentially expect utopia. Both are wrong. ~Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

Animals

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed? ~Morarji Desai

The World

You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?
~Chris Rock

Imagination

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~Carl Sagan

Hope and Fear

Hope and fear cannot alter the season. ~Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Life

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. ~Alice Walker

Different

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful. ~Jock Sturges

Giving Birth

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. ~Carol Burnett

A Fool

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. ~Charles P. Steinmetz

Politeness

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
~Madame de Stael

Given

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. ~Denzel Washington

To Love

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ~Anais Nin

For Justice

Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our lives - in our struggle for justice. ~Cesar Chavez

A Friend

The verb "to love" in Persian is "to have a friend." "I love you" translated literally is "I have you as a friend," and "I don't like you" simply means "I don't have you as a friend.
~Shusha Guppy

All Your Love

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man. ~Tammy Wynette

Sex Object

My wife is a sex object. Everytime I ask for sex, she objects.
~Les Dawson

What Art Is

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat