“More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.” WantFeelsKindFeelingsFunRoomsAudienceKingsInvolvedGet UpHanging OutLiving Room Author:Kate Voegele
“A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.” PeopleNeedsFeelsLooksHelpingProblemFeltPoorRaceKingsInvolvedCallingPoor PeopleLutherGet InvolvedHelp The PoorHelp Poor People Author:Billy Graham
“I heard Dr. King speaking on the radio, and it seemed like he was saying, "John Robert Lewis, you too can make a contribution. You can get involved!"” HeardKingsInvolvedRadioContributionDrsGet Involved Author:John Lewis
“In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and the ceiling came down below; I'm pretty sure I didn't do it. But then we were moved to the library. And there was a really boring history thing, about the Spanish Armada: how could you make that boring?!So I reached my hand out, and slid a book off to read under the desk, and it opened at King Lear Act Four Scene Six. I was astounded. I'd never seen language like it. I was awestruck. I think that may be one reason why I got involved in theatre.” ThinkingMayBookReasonHandsSchoolLanguageRoomsClassFourKingsInvolvedSceneSixMovedLibraryBoringTheatreReason WhyDesksForbiddenAccusedCeilingsLearAstoundedAwestruck Author:Keith Johnstone
“When John Kennedy was assassinated I was twenty-three, a stockbroker on Wall Street and married, and I never ever thought that politics would be anything that I would be a part of. But I realized that I had to get involved. Then, when Martin Luther King was assassinated and the Vietnam War was raging, I felt that my world was falling apart. I had these two beautiful children - three and one - and I just said, "I have to make it better."” WorldChildrenSaidTwoWarWould BeBeautifulFallThreeFeltStreetsWallKingsInvolvedMarriedTwentiesRageI RealizedVietnamFalling ApartLutherGet InvolvedVietnam WarStockbrokersJohn Kennedy Author:Barbara Boxer
“Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of ancient Greece, and the only thing he liked to do was horse around with kids when he was back from slaughtering. One thing that feminism revealed is that being a distant patriarchal figure was not something men wanted to be. They want to be more involved in the lives of their children, and you can see that once they're allowed to have that connection, they crave it.” MenWantLooksChildrenKidsWantedStuffOne ThingFeminismFiguresKingsInvolvedConnectionsHorseAncientWarriorBrutalCraveGreeceIliadAncient GreeceSpartaLoving Children Author:Stephen Marche