Cocoatree Quotes & Sayings

Our scars are like the rings in a tree trunk, showing its progress through life. How we heal and move forward through adversity . . . that is what makes the difference. — Morgan Rhodes

Out of this unstable mix of technocracy and national security you have a nostalgia developing for colonialism or religion - atavistic in my opinion, but some people want them back. Sadat is the great example of that: he threw out the Russians, as well as everything else that represented Abdel Nasser, ascendant nationalism, and so forth - and said, "Let the Americans come." Then you have a new period of what in Arabic is called an infitah - in other words, an opening of the country to a new imperialism: technocratic management, not production but services - tourism, hotels, banking, etc. That's where we are right now. — Edward W. Said

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. — Rita Mae Brown

There is no politically neutral art. — Bell Hooks

The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style ... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream. — Camille Paglia

Dance even if they are watching, dammit. — Christine Edwards

Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside. — V.S. Naipaul

Not all knowledge comes from the mind. Your body, your heart, your intuition. Sometimes memories even have minds of their own. — Kelly Barnhill

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is. — Bell Hooks

Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really hard to keep the lights on and the doors open when you're selling poetry and literature that appeals to a fringe audience. — Henry Rollins

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it. — Tabitha King