Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.
Quotes to Explore
-
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
-
You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
-
I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
-
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
-
You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
-
Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
-
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
-
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
-
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
-
Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
-
I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
-
I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
-
It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
-
What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
-
Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
-
Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.
-
All good art, to me, is uncertainty.
-
The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.
-
The supreme trial of the Constitution came at last under the tremendous pressure of civil war. We ourselves are witnesses that the Union emerged from the blood and fire of that conflict purified and made stronger for all the beneficent purposes of good government.
-
It is seldom that we find either men or places such as we expect them. ... Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.
-
I have advocated an entirely different approach than cap and tax, which would be worldwide in application and which emphasizes technology as a way of reducing total emissions.
-
Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.
