Madison Smartt Bell Quotes

The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race.

Madison Smartt Bell

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SlaveryWorldCitizenshipPlaceRace

If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.

Jimmy Swaggart

PeopleHellWeekendGoWillReturn

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

Robert Rauschenberg

Black And WhiteTimeMePaintingYou

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Robert Redford

ArtPoliticsSoulHonorThings

Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.

Robert Green Ingersoll

NatureRiverOwnLimitationsEven

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

Mia Love

LifeWomenHistoryPeopleThink

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

Steven Pinker

WordsBetterWishKnowSaidWant

I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.

Rob Lowe

PeopleAmazingMeBlessedHappenUp

The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read deeply changed the very structure of that circuit's connections, which rewired the brain, which transformed the nature of human thought.

Maryanne Wolf

NatureLearningBrainThoughtLong

I went to New York to be a model. That's all I wanted to be.

Michelle Phillips

New YorkNewModelWantedYork

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

GreatGreatnessRoadHeightsRough

China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.

Jose Rizal

WillSheChinaFortunateHerself

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

Jonathan Lethem

GoodGreatSpaceWritingPlanYou

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