Secundas Litteras Quotes & Sayings

He'd give anything to be out there playing instead of standing here watching. Trying to maintain this smile out of respect. He digs into his wrists some more with his nails. Breaks previously broken skin and pulls away. A smear of blood he wipes away with his other hand, rubs off across his dark jeans. Back home his mom is always on him to stop digging, but that only makes him want to dig more."
-exerpt from "Mexican White Boy — Matt De La Pena

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way. — David Brooks

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated. — Michael Tilson Thomas

In His wisdom, our God formed us out of the dirt. In His empathy, He spent a life walking through our dirt. In His grace, He let His sacrificial blood fall to the dirt. Then in His love, he picks us up from that dirt. — Jeremy Stephens

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want. — Ludwig Von Mises

I design differently because I am Patrick Kelly, and Patrick Kelly is black — Patrick Kelly