#lent

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. ↗

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature. ↗

— Russell Banks

#artistic #become #began #boy #drifted

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#caused #crimes #criminals #enter #gang

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#demonstrations #equal #eternal #hairs #heart

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#any #born #conspiracy #cultivation #feels

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#cruel #dictator #hard #his #look

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#because #had #i #passing #regret

Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ↗