#it

And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#dedicate #every #fact #finally #just

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot. ↗

— Patti Smith

#changed #children #citizen #cleaned #diapers

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels. ↗

— Patti Smith

#labels #resistant #traditionally

Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. ↗

— Patti Smith

#fellow #fellow man #good #good news #hope

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. ↗

— Patti Smith

#because #drawing #felt #female #gender

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer. ↗

— Patti Smith

#craft #day #developing #every #every day

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it. ↗

— Patti Smith

#i #just #lot #prose #published

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer. ↗

— Patti Smith

#better #better singer #could #i #regrets

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting. ↗

— Patti Smith

#drawings #getting #handwriting #i #into

Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day. ↗

— Patti Smith

#because #concert #day #destroyed #every