“I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive. You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself.” ThinkingWritingTryingThreeProcessCreativeMonthsPeriodsPureMessagesDown AndWorthyCreative ProcessCompositionThree Months Author:John Zorn
“Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights Movement of that period. At the same time that Martin Luther King was talking about his dream, Malcolm X gave his most famous address in Detroit during that same period, "The Message To The Grass Roots," dismissing the notion of integration.” CountryDreamTalkingRightsMovementKingsPeriodsMessagesRootsNotionCivil RightsGrassAddressesDivisionIntegrationLutherCivil Rights MovementExaggerationDetroit Author:David Maraniss
“I feel responsible to know what I'm talking about and to actually express myself the way I choose. We have to put those messages on a global platform period. That, to me, is inspiring.” KnowsWayFeelsTalkingPeriodsMessagesResponsiblePlatforms Author:Kofi Siriboe
“The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.” PeopleValuesGivenNumbersRolesPeriodsLimitsBenefitsMessagesLegacyProphetMuhammadSealsProphet Muhammad Author:Cat Stevens
“It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)” MenWayFirstsStillsBookWarSchoolSocialBoysTeacherMovementPeriodsMessagesShameElectionExtrasDullProtestUnitsTextbooksSocial HistoryHistory TextbooksProtest MovementsSchool History Author:Elizabeth Kostova