If you have no road map, you have to create your own.
“If you have no road map, you have to create your own.”
The World Motivation
If you have no road map, you have to create your own.
“If you have no road map, you have to create your own.”
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“If you have no road map, you have to create your own.”
“I always say I write because I have questions, not because I have answers. It's true that you begin the conversation - that's the role of the artist. But it's not my job to tell us what to do next. I wish I had those tools.”
“Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them, and to have windows if the stories are about people who have been historically absent in literature.”
“My kids speak of both subtle slights and blatant racism. It's a narrative I never imagined for them.”
“The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.”
“I didn't have any idea of what I was getting into by going away to college. And I was scared. I was scared of failing. I was scared of it not being for me because I was going to be one of the first people in my family to go off to college.”
“The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.”
“The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.”
“To create a work of art is to create the world.”
“On TV the people can see it. On radio you've got to create it.”
“You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.”
“I feel like it's important for me to expand, to create my own label. With a label, I can just give someone the opportunity that I was given, you know? That's what it's all about, just helping.”