Rell Taylor

“Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“But charisma only wins people’s attention. Once you have their attention, you have to have something to tell them.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit