"Art is not living. It is the use of living."

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"Art is not living. It is the use of living."

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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

"It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it."

Time, Sex, People, Metaphor

"Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before."

Architecture, Poetry, Change, Dream

"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

"But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it."

Work, Survival, Key, Question

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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Art, Beauty, Creation, Inspiration, Aesthetic

"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Art, Poetry, Humor, Accuracy, Creativity

"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Art, Storytelling, Life, Reality, Truth

"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Art, Inspirational, Power, Truth, Wisdom

"Music is breath of life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Art, Music, Breath, Life, Essence

"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Art, Poetry, Expression, Creativity, Life

"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Art, Storytelling, Magic, Emotion, Heart

"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Art, Poetry, Time, Music, Writing

"Music gives life to the soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Art, Music, Life, Soul, Energy

"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Art, Writing, Life, Presence, Creativity