Edouard Glissant Quotes

To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control to possess it.

Edouard Glissant

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• According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Decision
  • Research
  • Alcohol

• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • I Can

• My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Different
  • Down

• While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Man
  • End

• Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Today
  • Poor

• Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Social
  • Reform
  • Brings

• I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Perfect
  • Plant
  • Eating

• Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Mom
  • Shows
  • Caught

• Thug: repeating Look, bud, I said 'Your money or your life.'

  

  Jack Benny
  • Life
  • Money
  • Thug

• The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long
  • Power

• Two lovers move in the crowd like a link of music,We press upon them, we hold them, and let them pass;A chord of music strikes us and straight we tremble;We tremble like wind-blown grass.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Music
  • Wind

• Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.

  

  Joe Conason
  • Small
  • Patriotic

• A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI

• My arm came back just as quickly as it went sore on me in 1915. I awoke one morning and learned I could throw without pain again.

  

  Dazzy Vance
  • Pain
  • Morning

• Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Believe
  • American

• I keep my face covered during concerts. That's just something that is part of me, an artist, and I think it's a cool concept and look. It is really inspired by my love for video games, especially with the videogame 'Watchdog' that I love.

  

  Alan Walker
  • Cool
  • Inspired

• The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Stock

• Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in apartment buildings people had to come up with a schedule - you practice at 5 p.m., I'll practice at 6 p.m. That way the music didn't collide with one another.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Music
  • Air
  • Practice

• Governments spend all their time trying to get big companies to relocate their headquarters, and they end up subsidizing the move with tax breaks. And companies that relocate their headquarters are often not meaningful job creators.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Power
  • American
  • America

• I'm not an over-dominant person. I don't go around and expect everyone to listen to me the whole time. But I like to be in control of my life because I have so many people around me, I can get pulled in one direction and then the other. If I don't have any say in it, then I end up just losing complete control and I don't like the idea of that. I could actually lose my identity.

  

  Prince William
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control. Since it is impossible to count on enough moral goodwill among those who possess irresponsible power to sacrifice it for the good of the whole, it must be destroyed by coercive methods and these will always run the peril of introducing new forms of injustice in place of those abolished.

  

  Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Political
  • Control
  • Impossible

• To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control to possess it.

  

  Edouard Glissant
  • Control
  • Written
  • Move