Quote for Today: James Baldwin
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding …
Quote for Today: Barbara Macdonald
The power of the old woman is that because she is outside the system, she can attack it. And I am determined to attack it. One of the ways …
Look and Listen #16: Kerry James Marshall
American painter Kerry James Marshall talks about his strategy to raise his aesthetic into mainstream art, to paint the things he values in the world. What we focus on as …
Quote for Today: Amos Wilson
Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence of justice …
Quote for Today: Robert M. Pirsig
That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don’t imitate what the teacher wants you get …
Quote for Today: Doris Lessing
Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how wrong the egg, I will stand on the …