#says

Never bury something deep, baby. Takes twice as much courage to be who you are, say what you think, feel what you feel and let it show then it does to bury it. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#courage

President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly. ↗

— Peter Arnett

#american #american policy #bush #challenged #concerned

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct. ↗

— Saul Williams

#favourite #going #gonna #lie #other

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#about #almost #belong #century #composers

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#always #any #anybody #because #everything

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid. ↗

— Aberjhani

#essays #global-community #philosophy #spirituality #w-e-b-du-bois

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#essays #fiction #junot #literature #love

The essay is a modest genre. It doesn't mean to change the world. Instead it says: let me tell you what happened to me. ↗

— Sara Levine

#change

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable. ↗

— Erwin Chargaff

#essays #language-literature #nature

Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.] ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#essays #montaigne #writing #art