#mad

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art. ↗

— Russell Banks

#american #art #classics #early #early age

I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. ↗

— Lloyd Banks

#because #corners #everybody #feel #get

We are all blessed ones. Heaven is no longer in the clouds. It is right here, all around us, everywhere; we must only open our eyes to see it. ↗

— Kim Chestney

#heaven #intuition #kim-chestney #psychic-workshop #samadhi

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#being #famous #got #heavier #i

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#each #goodness #live #lives #love

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up. ↗

— Corey Feldman

#decisions #funny #i #made #poorer

Jack's doctors have told him he is crazy… but, the truth is, it's the Voices who are crazy, not him. ↗

— Jennifer Daydreamer

#humorous #madness #dreams

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income. ↗

— Harold Washington

#assets #day #every #every day #face

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#against #appeals #conduct #deaf #destructive

I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#across #always #appreciate #because #come