Buckminster Fuller // "Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all of your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person."
Janis Joplin // "When I'm there, I'm not here...I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?"
Glenn Close // "It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways."
Marcel Duchamp // "I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do."
Marlon Brando // "I don't think people generally realize what the motion picture industry has done to...all ethnic groups, all minorities, all non-whites... You can see silly renditions of human behavior...the leering Filipino houseboy, the wily Japanese...the idiot Black man and the stupid Indian and it just goes on and on. And people don't realize how deeply these people are injured by seeing themselves represented...not so much the adults...but children... They grow up with a negative image of themselves and it lasts a lifetime."
Rosa Parks // "I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up."
Marc Chagall // "If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."
Lauren Bacall // “Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.”
Malcolm X // "Don't be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn't do what you do, or think as you think. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today."
Oliver Sacks // "I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved...I have been given much and I have given something in return...I have read and traveled and thought and written...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure."
Noam Chomsky // "Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think."
Michael Jordan // "To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate."