Quote for Today: Cecilia Bartoli
The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find – the goal is always …
Food, Labels and Unexpected Voices: Graffiti Artists vs. GMO
California Proposition 37 would have been the first law in the United States requiring retailers and food companies to label products made with genetically modified ingredients had it passed in late …
Quote for Today: Paul Auster
It is also true that memory sometimes comes to him as a voice. It is a voice that speaks inside him, and it is not necessarily his own. It speaks …
Voice, Language and Belonging: Renee Liang’s Chinglish
Children of immigrants often feel as if they belong nowhere, that no one comprehends their unique voice. The language and customs of their parents homeland may be confining, unfamiliar and …
Quote for Today: Terry Tempest Williams
“Once you know that you have a voice,” Louis said, “it’s no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice.” ―Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four …
Quote for Today: Elizabeth von Arnim
…listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to …
The Night Bird: Wazimbo’s Nwahulwana
Wazimbo, born Humberto Carlos Benfica on November 11, 1948, is one of the most famous voices of Mozambique. A performer of marrabenta, an energetic dance music which grew out of Mozambique in the …
Sultry and Sweet: Lhasa de Sela, My Name
This live performance of My Name from the album The Living Road shows the marvelous poetry and voice of Lhasa de Sela. Her intimate and warm delivery, both gentle and sultry, is moving beyond …
Quote for Today: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we …