#idea

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud. ↗

— Saul Williams

#around #because #being #black #blackness

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer. ↗

— Christo

#ideas #lots #machines #see #you

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#could #exploring #figure #frontier #gather

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#either #fanatic #get #himself #idea

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#ideas #much #obsessions #people #represents

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along! ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#doing #done #good #good idea #i

When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#everywhere #felt #garden #get #had

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#division #i #idealists #never #realists

You have to test your ideas in a public forum. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#ideas #public #public forum #test #you

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#bear #best #borrowed #come #demand