“I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine citizenship; it's an imagined thing. Community is an imagined thing. And if your imagination isn't working - and, of course, in oppressed people that's the first thing that goes - you can't imagine anything better. Once you can imagine something different, something better, then you're on your way.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFirstsArtDifferentCoursesCommunityImaginationImaginePlansCitizensOppressedCitizenshipSomething Better Author:Lee Maracle
“Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.” WayWritingMindHeartUsedCertainCoursesReadingImaginationEncountersHeart And MindLifelongReading And Writing Book:Three papers on fiction Source: Three papers on fiction
“Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.” WorldWayHumansBeautifulLiteratureImaginationAliveActivityDay To DaySpectrumVisitingHuman ActivityDay LifeDay To Day Life Author:Abraham Verghese