#about

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job. ↗

— Toi Derricotte

#asks #being #besides #care #experience

I think that, on the reconciliation issue, if they had the votes, we wouldn't have had the summit. And if they try to go through reconciliation, it will be a change in semantics. Instead of the American people saying 'stop the bill' or 'kill the bill,' it's all going to be about repealing the bill. That's not the kind of discussion that they want. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#american #american people #bill #change #discussion

I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#also #any #crazy #getting #i

Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight. ↗

— John Fahey

#folks #show #tonight #well

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. ↗

— Dorthea Brande

#act #break #command #face #fail

What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it. ↗

— Joan Blades

#care #going #members #our #successful

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know? ↗

— Mos Def

#beauty #being #expression #guys #i

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#around #different #different things #every #every time

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#around #everyday #everyday life #happening #hear

And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#album #came #doing #first #here