“When you say that [Martin Luther] King was a prophet, you don't say that he predicted anything; you say that he bore witness. He left a committed life so that people would never forget the suffering of people that he was connected to. King was prophetic because he lived a committed life. Now he did critique society, saying you're going to go under if you don't treat your poor right. I mean, that is part of prophetic calling, but it's not predicting anything.” PeopleIfsMeanSufferingLeftForgetPoorKingsCallingTreatsCommittedConnectedWitnessProphetNever ForgetBoresLutherCritiquePropheticPredicting Author:Cornel West
“Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England, or the British Isles, as a single, homogenous, united nation, it would still be impossible to write its naval history without reference to the histories of the other nations, near and far, with which the sea has connected it.” IfsWritingStillsNationsUnitedImpossibleSeaTreatsEnglandTradeConnectedBritishPeacefulDividesUnited NationsNavalIsleNear And Far Author:Nicholas Rodger
“It's so hard for people to give up their cell phones or their ideas of being connected to everything all the time in order to get an immersive experience. That's the best way to make art. It's almost like you have to treat it like you're going into a submarine, and Noah Baumbach totally agrees with that. There's not a real other life that happens outside of the movie while it's being shot, which I like.” PeopleWayGivingArtIdeasRealHardHappensOrderLike YouGiving UpShotsTreatsAgreePhonesConnectedBest WayCellsCell PhoneSubmarines Author:Greta Gerwig
“Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken. Sex is more than an act of pleasure, its' the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it's almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can't take it. And at this moment you're a part of them. The difference between light and hard is that you can sleep with a light on. Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.” MenFeelsPersonsRealHardWholeMomentsLightAbleSexDifferencesSleepAbilityPleasureLaughingComfortableMarriedTreatsConnectedChickensFadesFeathersBeing MarriedMake You LaughKinkyBreathtakingSexinessBeauty Fades Author:Joanne Woodward
“Imagine Americans who go to Paris. Why would you want to go where someone's going to disparage you? Why would you go anywhere where they treat you bad? Well, that's how it is for us to go to Mexico. You have to be on your guard, because I think the Mexicans are harder on the Mexicans, the Mexican-Americans. They don't see us as Mexican. I think part of it's a class issue and a color issue. We're more connected to their servants, so what are we doing staying at a nice hotel? There's a kind of shame.” ThinkingWantWellsKindClassIssuesNiceImagineColorTreatsHarderShameConnectedServantParisHotelStayingMexicoMexicanMexican American Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you're only hurting yourself.” IfsThinkingWayWantBodyEarthSpiritDiesCausesHurtLevelsTreatsConnectedTreatedAncestorLive Your LifeSimplestTrashDumpHurts SomeoneHurting Yourself Author:Charles de Lint
“Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.” WellsBornTreatsConnectedAffectedVirtuousScorn Author:W. S. Gilbert