“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.” WritingYearsHoursImaginationNovelStreetsLandBordersShoppingFactoriesWorkplaceUnrealCathedralsExpeditions Book:An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography Source: An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography
“It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains, general stores, tourist camps. 'Come back,' they call, 'come back.' Do they feel marooned in one place, lost, needing to believe someone will return to share their exile on the similar main streets, in the varied but always new-looking land?” WayFeelsBelieveLostShareStreetsLandReturnSouthStoresGasStationsCampsRegulationCharmingFarewellFountainExileTouristsSodaGas StationsMain Street Book:The View From The Ground Source: The View From The Ground
“Youngsters inspired by Maoism have taken the gun and are spilling blood on streets, but our land needs the colour of progress not the colour of blood. Maoists must not have the gun in their hands, instead they must have agriculture tools and pens so that they can serve others. Raasta kalam, hal aur pasine ka hai, khoon ka nahi.” NeedsHandsMotivationTakenProgressBloodStreetsLandGunToolsInspiredColourPensAgricultureYoungstersSpilling Author:Narendra Modi
“I live in the land of delight - of just walking in the street, and the sun is shining, and I'm on my way to Starbucks and I'm feeling good. I also live for those aha! moments when you understand something new, when you see two things fitting together to make a surprising third. There's actually a chemical that's produced in the brain by learning that gives you that little ecstatic moment of, Oh, that's why.” WayGivingLittlesTwoMomentsFeelingsTogetherBrainSunStreetsLandWalkingThirdsShiningDelightFeel GoodMy WayTwo ThingsSomething NewChemicalsSurprisingFittingEcstaticStarbucksAha MomentFitting Together Author:Gloria Steinem
“Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.” ThinkingKnowsHardSeemsBlackJusticeCitiesStreetsLandDiversitySocial JusticeFolksStrangerGrantedEach DaySuspectsFarmsPavementCity Streets Author:Richard Wright
“Whatever happens in Washington, Wall Street, Hollywood or Silicon Vally in the next ten years, it will be irrelevant if our families don't come together at a much higher level. Without a renaissance of family, no new candidate can rise to save us. No new legislation, policy or program will heal our land.” IfsYearsHappensTogetherNextLevelsStreetsLandPolicyWallHigherTenProgramHollywoodHealOur FamilyCandidatesLegislationIrrelevantRenaissanceWhatever HappensHigher LevelSilicon Author:Oliver DeMille
“When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book. By that, I mean in terms of civilians in the street knew that superpowers were an everyday matter of fact. When it finally ended up at Netflix, they really decided to land it in the Marvel Universe that exists in the cinematic universe. That changes the story entirely. It was no longer about the other, which is what that metaphor was. It's really more about the character herself, which I love.” MeanBookIdeasMatterCharacterFactsStoriesUniverseTermStreetsLandDecidedEverydayMetaphorComicDevelopingComic BookCiviliansMatter Of FactSuperpowerCinematicNetflixDaredevil Author:Melissa Rosenberg
“What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and land banking... while people are sleeping on the streets?” PeopleIfsKindSleepCitiesStreetsLandDevelopmentPropertyInvestmentExpensiveOwnershipBanking Author:Jeremy Corbyn
“I've been with the project for like three years: creating it, pushing it. [There] becomes a certain doubt when you're pitching this story to people. ["The Land" is] a cautionary tale. It's not the brightest or best ending to a film when you're telling a cautionary tale about four kids, kids who are killing each other, kids who are products of the streets.” PeopleYearsStoriesKidsFilmCertainThreeDoubtFourStreetsLandProductsProjectsCreatingKillingTalesPushingThree YearsPitchingKilling Each OtherPushing ItCautionary Tales Author:Steven Caple Jr.
“I saw in Chicago, on the street where I was visiting my sister-in-law, this "Urban Renewal" and it means one thing: "Negro removal." But they want to tear the homes down and put a parking lot there. Where are those people going? Where will they go? And as soon as Negroes take to the street demonstrating, one hears people say, "they shouldn't have done it." The world is looking at America and it is really beginning to show up for what it is really like. "Go Tell It on the Mountain." We can no longer ignore this, that America is not "the land of the free and the home of the brave."” PeopleWorldWantMeanDoneShowsHomeAmericaLawSawsOne ThingStreetsLandTearsMountainDown AndBraveChicagoMy SisterUrbanRenewalIn-lawsVisitingParkingRemovalDemonstratingParking LotLand Of The FreeSister In LawUrban Renewal Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“The Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country. The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind of viewpoint, very condescending. Europe on the other hand, saw India in a more romantic, mystical, spiritual way, as a place that's a fountain of wisdom.” WorldWayKindCountryHandsSpiritualNationsSawsStreetsLandEuropeIndiaCowsMysticalSnakesFountainExesViewpointsColonyCondescendingAnglo SaxonCharmersUnderdeveloped Countries Author:Kabir Bedi