If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.
We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.
The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.
I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom or the words that might inspire hope and courage in the face of fear. My weapons are peaceful, for it is only by peace that peace can be attained. The song of freedom must prevail.
Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.
The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever. The people- beaten down today, yet rising tomorrow; losing the road one minute but finding it the next; their eyes always fixed on a star of true brotherhood, equality and dignity- the people are the real guardians of our hopes and dreams.
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
He kissed like no man she'd ever known. There was something about him, a rawness, an earthy sensuality that bordered on barbaric, something she'd never be able to explain to someone else. A woman had to be kissed by Dageus MacKeltar to fully understand how devastating it was. How it could bring a woman to her knees.
The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.