Quotes & Sayings About Crispus Attucks

the daily diminishment is a low flame, a constant drip. — Claudia Rankine

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us. I often think that all I want to do now is to avoid suicide, accidental or otherwise. Other than that, I think living on the edge is what drives my work and me beyond a certain point. The artist lives with anxiety. When you finally reach a plateau of achievement, there comes a new anxiety - the hunger to push on still further. That angst is what makes you go forward. — Beverly Pepper

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place. — Horace Mann

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world. — Claire Messud

The failure so far of the governments of so many of the worlds most powerful countries in the face of such egregious unfairness ... to make the slightest progress on the issue of fair trade is hard to explain. — Colin Firth