#tan

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#analyze #blurt #creative #creative act #critical

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#balance #because #between #bollocks #carefully

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#away #black #blacks #colleges #doing

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#blacks #distance #father #his #kept

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#because #been #city #cosmopolitan #creole

The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#afghanistan #been #being #damned #denounced

I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#grow #grow up #i #important #kids

I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#ago #because #chance #cold #got

We got babies raising babies, and its important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#direction #go #got #important #kids

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#important #important thing #look #most #nice