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Wadada Leo Smith Quotes

All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

Wadada Leo Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 18, 1941

Topics

Nature Change Courage Art Society

With athletics, you put all that training in for only two major championships a year and the Olympics every four years. So when you get on top of the podium, it is relief and excitement and... Oh! it has all been worthwhile... the hard work, the sacrifices.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Work Hard Work Training Year You

I ushered at the Shubert in New Haven during graduate school when plays en route to Broadway still went out of town to try out. I worked backstage at summer stock doing jobs from garbage man to strapping on Herbert Marshall's wooden leg to fixing Gloria Swanson's broken plumbing in her dressing room with her yelling at me as I worked the plunger.

Man Broken School Me Doing Summer

Let's say you have white milk and chocolate milk, and one of them is good emotions and one of them is bad emotions, and you pour both in: you're still going to fill up and run over.

Good Chocolate You Bad Emotions Run

Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.

Attitude Money Fearless Decisions

Not only am I literally and figuratively the dark horse, I'm actually the poor horse. The only thing that I have going for me is my soul and my commitment to the American people.

Shirley Chisholm

Commitment Soul People Me American

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.

Work Business Best Luck Think Wish

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

Roy H. Williams

Society Computers Media Up Carry

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Time Me Think Now Journal My Own

The Soviet Union was a one-party state. In such states, enemies of the party become enemies of the state, and the state can punish with full weight of prosecution.

Party Become Enemies Soviet Union

I've gotten to the point where I'm comfortable guarding any position on the floor. It just didn't happen overnight. It came with a lot of work, a lot of film study and everything.

Work Comfortable Study Everything

Obama does not like the issue of where he was born.

Born Where Like He Does Issue

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

Patience Time Eye Will Never Dry

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