Tishani Silva Quotes & Sayings

A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system. — Wendy Kopp

The tear on my mother's cheek got larger and larger. It detached from her face and became a shiny globe, widening outward like an inflating balloon. At first the tear floated in the air between them, but as it expanded it took my mother and father into itself. I saw them suspended, separate but beginning to slowly drift towards one another. Then my mother looked past my father's shoulder, looked through the bright skin of the tear, at me. The tear enlarged until at last, it took me in, too. It was warm and salt. As soon as I got used to the strange light inside the tear, I began to swim clumsily towards my parents. — Fred Chappell

I can be working on a collection and a film at the same time. It can take a lot out of me, but the processes come from the same source. From a brief I set myself I can make a film, I can make a collection, I can make an installation. — Hussein Chalayan

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre. — James Thurber

Clarity of your thoughts makes your actions precise Whenever you feel your actions are not appropriate, watch out your thoughts ... — Raj Vanjara

You can learn, but you've got to give yourself time to pick up the basics, to practice, and maybe even to fail once or twice. — Susan Forward