"There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt."

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"There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt."

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"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood."

Risk,

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."

Nothing,

"There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else."

Family, Mother, Key, Want, Woman

"There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists."

God, Lesbian

"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."

Justice, Tools, Will

"I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community."

Diversity, Parenting, Community, Fiction, Gay

"The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot."

Learning, Riot

"The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower."

Failure, Strength, Difference, First

"I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?"

Sexuality,

"In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us."

Diversity, Giving, Myth, Words

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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Creativity, Future, Imagination, Reality, Creation

"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Creativity, Creation, Art, Design, Reality

"If I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you really begin to learn something about a thing not to want to write about it but rather to keep on learning about it always and at no time, unless you are very egotistical, which, of course, accounts for many books, will you be able to say: now I know all about this and will write about it."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Creativity, Learning, Writing, Patience, Knowledge

"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Creativity, Skill, Talent, Brilliance, Genius

"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

Creativity, Work, Art, Divine

"Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Creativity, Mistake, Freedom, Rules

"Imagination is a glorious wonder."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Creativity, Imagination, Glory, Wonder, Divine

"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Creativity, Writing, Understanding, Perspective

"Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Creativity, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Creativity, Ideas, Innovation, Repetition