The World Motivation
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”
— Toni Morrison · Ability
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“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”
“I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.”
“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”
“the clutch and helplessness that resided in the hands; how blindness was altered so that what leapt to the eye were places to lie down, and all else-doorknobs, straps, hooks, the sadness that crouched in corners, and the passing of time-was interference.”
“It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.”
“The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit; everything, just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.”
“In Syria, a progressive foreign policy would have shown military restraint while pumping up our ability to gain political leverage over Syria's benefactors and providing humanitarian funding to make sure that anybody that wanted to leave Syria could.”
“I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.”
“The older I get, I realize, 'Man, I'm a very rare bird,' and that's not because of necessarily my talent or ability; it so much depends on luck and just the grace of the universe.”
“I'm confident with my ability.”
“The underlying premise of the Brown decision - i.e. that 'separate but equal is inherently unequal' - is beyond dispute and judges can express their agreement with that principle without calling into question their ability to apply the law faithfully to cases raising similar issues.”