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We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition. ↗

— Joan Blades

#censure #clinton #congress #family #friends

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better. ↗

— Joan Blades

#better #elections #got #much #percent

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations. ↗

— Mos Def

#art #cheering #collect #dormant #functional

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 say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#behind #believe #culture #exist #i

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#i #i do #ideal #ideal world #into

On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#artist #back #beginning #color #construction

We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living. ↗

— Grazia Deledda

#i #i am #later #living #moved

When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff. ↗

— Joan Blades

#connection #deliver #experience #go #his way

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will. ↗

— Joan Blades

#active #become #candidates #communicate #representatives