#so

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night. ↗

— Michael Franti

#change the world #difficult #help #i #know

When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world. ↗

— Michael Franti

#enough #first #i #make #out

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#book #books #down #external #fun

Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#australians #challenge #chance #day #eve

It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it? ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#back #book #does #else #family

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#must #out #people #poor #poor people

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#also #been #communities #deal #difficult

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#fame #often #people #unwholesome

We get too soon old and too late smart. ↗

— Frank Kelly Freas

#late #old #smart #soon #too

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men. ↗

— George Wald

#life #men #only #over #solar