Guan Im Quotes & Sayings

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. — Jerzy Kosinski

I know certainly, for instance, it's part of the black aesthetic, the whole concept of art as business, art for art's sake, art as the competitive gesture, I connect with a very male-oriented concept of living, as opposed to, and we would call them alternate aesthetics, which include the black aesthetic, the feminist aesthetic, where art and poetry become part and parcel of one's daily living, one's daily expression, the need to communicate, the need to share one's feelings, to develop within oneself the best that is possible. And the definition of art as betterment, I think, is a mainstay of the alternative aesthetics. — Audre Lorde

Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws. — Baruch Spinoza

The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face. — Toni Cade Bambara

Evil to him who evil thinks,.... — Karen Harper

Get your pockets dug from all your chemical bank ends caught him at the red light - on Putman Avenue and Franklin — GZA

An epic subject requires a writer of epic skill and scope, and we have a perfect pairing in Cleopatra and Stacy Schiff. Absorbing and illuminating, this new biography will endure. — Jon Meacham

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much. — George Saintsbury

There are many people who are consciously aware of their inner rage although they might not know exactly what it is and why it erupts in them. — Christopher Dines

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water. — Paul Farmer