#present

I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#around #atmosphere #certain #closeness #clubs

Each of us is the best we can be when we are fully present, focused yet relaxed, curious yet non-judgmental, committed yet flexible. ↗

— John Kuypers

#inspirational-quotes #present-moment #self-improvement #inspirational

My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#dance #finding-harmony #finding-your-voice #happiness #inspiring-quotes

It is not surprising that young white males – most between thirty and forty – play major roles in the production of hip-pop. It’s easy to forget this because when most people critique rap and hip-pop harshly, they assume that young black men are the sole creators and producers of misogynist rap. In fact, nothing is unilaterally produced anymore. As we’ve discussed, once you have a corporate takeover of the street culture, it is no longer the property of the young, Black and Latino men and women who have created it. It is reinvented with the mass consumer audience in mind. The hard-core misogyny and the hard-core sexism isn’t a translation from street to big-time studio, it is a product of the big-time studio. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#representation #men

Wait for tomorrow To think tomorrow's thoughts. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#living-in-the-present #inspirational

Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame. ↗

— Paul Haggis

#hollywood #media #representation #women #women-and-men

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire -- a very good and necessary element nevertheless -- because some people burnt themselves, or water because someone drowned. The same can be said of all good things which can be used well or used badly. But one must not attack them if fools abuse them. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#argument #clichés #conduct #damage #danger

A woman in a box—a great gift for the husband who has everything.
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— Jarod Kintz

#gift #gift-ideas #husband #men #present

Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#inspiration #life #mind #mindfulness #present

We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#future #inspiration #life #mindfulness #past