Mahala

“Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes'.”
― Stephen Colbert

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“I refused, and still refuse, the inflated definition of artists as special people with special prerogatives and special excuses.”
― Anne Truitt, Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

“All the different ways of talking English I throw together like a salad and dine greedily in my mongrel tongue.”
― Alice Randall, The Wind Done Gone: A Novel