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Alex Tizon Quotes

It wasn't a conscious decision to search for my Asian self; it was an urgency born out of an emptiness I was trying to fill.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: filipino
Birth: October 30, 1959 - March 23, 2017

Topics

Decision Self Search Trying Born

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

Today Justice America Important Most

One example of 21st century activism we are engaging in is All Out, a first-of-its-kind global movement to advance the interests and rights of LGBT people. All Out is bringing together people of all identities to build a world in which everyone can live freely and be embraced for who they are.

Live Together People World Build

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

John F. Kennedy

People Society Free Secret Open

Heroes aren't always people who save others in the normal sense. Sometimes they're people who keep trying even when things seem impossible.

Jeff Vandermeer

People Impossible Trying Sometimes

People don't question American power. What people need to be convinced of is American will.

Power People American Will Need

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing.

Trombone Shorty

Time Responsibility People Grow Up

I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.

Thought Pictures Things Something

I did sing in a choir for a while, but if anybody was sick, I always whispered my songs to make sure nobody could pick out my voice.

Mary Steenburgen

Sick Voice Nobody Choir Always Out

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

Political Begin Statement September

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.

William S. Burroughs

Art Writing Aesthetic Picture Equal

I love Janet Jackson.

Love I Love Jackson Janet Jackson

I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.

People World Think Trying You Look

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