Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
Malcolm's X objective was actually to reingratiate himself within the Nation of Islam, that because he had emerged by the early 1960s as a very prominent figure outside of the N. O. I. , there were critics within the organization that were saying to the patriarch of the N. O. I. , the Honorable Elijah Mohammad, that Malcolm planned to take over the organization, which was not true.
I don't want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody's going through that.
Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art
The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you.
In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.
Ive done a lot of shows that didnt do well. You have to go in with a 50-50 take on it. If it goes well, fantastic. Hope for the best and plan for the worst.
If you have to be right, you put yourself in a hedged lane, but once you experience the power of not having to be right, you will feel like you are walking across open fields, the perspective wide and your feet free to take any turn.
I never take my own side in a quarrel.
In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.
Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.
I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips.
It's overshadowed, the art. We're in a really argumentative, black-and-white-thinking culture right now. There's not a lot of time to take things in.
A teacher can show you the ways. But no one can do it for you. You have to take what you learn from them and go out and live it. You have to change your life.
I don't believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it's there it's got to add to it or take it to another level.
If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. If you take them just for emergency, that's all they're gonna get.
Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.
It's all good when we making love, all I ask is don't take our love for granted, it's granted.
Every girl deserves to take part in creating the technology that will change our world and change who runs it.
When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.
