If you work hard enough at something that doesn’t matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do.
“I said, “Los Angeles burned but Los Angeles is but one city experiencing this kind of hopelessness and despair,” I said, “and we need a job program with stipends …” I said, “These young people really, ya know, are not in anybody’s statistics or data. They’ve been dropped off of everybody’s agenda. They live from grandmama to mama to girlfriend.” I said, “We now got young people who are twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two years old who have never worked a day of their lives.” I said, “These are the young people in our streets and they are angry and they are frustrated.”
― Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
― Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
“Across Europe, fascism developed only in advanced democracies where the socialist left had become successful enough to frighten the middle classes. Fascism was in part a defensive reaction against the left by those who most feared it.”
― The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
― The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
“Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post-Gothic mode.”
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“Over the next twelve years, I came to regard Obama as a skilled politician, a deeply moral human being, and one of the greatest presidents in American history. He was phenomenal—the most agile interpreter and navigator of the color line I had ever seen. He had an ability to emote a deep and sincere connection to the hearts of black people, while never doubting the hearts of white people.”
― We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
― We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
“The clown isn’t an actor or character. The clown is a person representing all of us in one way or another, representing our imperfections and who we are, with the grand desire of creating a universal “us.”
― Clowns: In conversation with modern masters
― Clowns: In conversation with modern masters
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