Morgan > Morgan's Quotes

“For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude to the third act, the stage is far away as in a dream, my heart swells with delight—and you want to blind me with a pair of half-ruble spectacles?”
― Isaac Babel

“All of you cowboys, fight for your land.”
― Woody Guthrie

“Anyone who uses more than two chords is just showing off.”
― Woody Guthrie

“If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.”
― Woody Guthrie

“Take it easy, but take it.”
― Woody Guthrie

“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”
― Woody Guthrie

“Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.”
― Audre Lorde

“Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.”
― bell hooks, Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

“Patriarchy has no gender.”
― bell hooks, Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

“One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..”
― bell hooks, Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

“If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.”
― Bell Hooks

“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”
― bell hooks

“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.”
― bell hooks

“feminism is for everybody”
― bell hooks

“It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.”
― Augusto Boal

“One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.”
― Assata Shakur

“Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space.”
― Elizabeth Alexander, The Black Interior: Essays