#ace

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for. ↗

— Russell Banks

#ancient #been #community #embrace #enough

Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#anymore #career #certainly #face #facts

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#containing #face #invested #like #lover

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#beings #beneath #better #hope #human

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. ↗

— James Baldwin

#experience #faces #his #identity #person

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down. ↗

— Malcolm X

#arms #pacifism #peace #revolution #violence

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#closer #comes #concepts #eternal #eternal peace

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. ↗