Aurora Levins Morales Quotes
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.
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I'm a giant Beatles fan.
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I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
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There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.
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I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically.
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We need to spend a trillion dollars rebuilding our schools, our roads, our basic science and research here in the United States.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
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I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!
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Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.
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Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.
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When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.
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Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.
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Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.
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I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.
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Me and Tricky like playing with each other.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
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I've never wanted to kill myself over anything major. It's always the little things that do me in.
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Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.
