Derek Walcott Quotes
I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot of psychic damage, but eventually, they don't affect your work.
Derek Walcott
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
Lady Gaga
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
Kanye West
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
Laura Mvula
What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
Ferdinand Marcos
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley
Always be open to new beginnings. To the universe, every moment is the start of the next big thing in your life.
Marianne Williamson
People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.
Liberace
Men treat men differently than they would a woman.
Orlando Bloom
Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.
J. C. Watts
I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.
Bharati Mukherjee
I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot of psychic damage, but eventually, they don't affect your work.
Derek Walcott
