Reads tagged with “culture”
Bruce Lee’s Never Before Revealed Letters to Himself About Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success
“Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy… actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being.”
Nina Simone on Time
A meditation on the one dimension of human existence that “goes past all racial conflict and all kinds of conflicts.”
Audre Lorde on the Indivisibility of Identity and the Importance of Arts Education and Arts Funding
“The shortest statement of philosophy I have is my living, or the word ‘I.’”
William Faulkner on What Sherwood Anderson Taught Him About Writing, the Artist’s Task, and Being an American
“To be a writer, one has first got to be what he is.”
Italo Calvino on Racial Justice: The Beloved Italian Writer’s Stirring Account of the Early Civil Rights Movement and His Encounter with Martin Luther King, Jr.
“What counts is what we are, and the way we deepen our relationship with the world and with others, a relationship that can be one of both love for all that exists and of desire for its transformation.”
Love Beyond Label: The Tender Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms
“I would gladly write to you only by means of music, but I have things to say to you to-day which music could not express.”
How to Know Everything About Everything: Laura Riding’s Extraordinary 1930 Letters to an 8-Year-Old Girl About Being Oneself
“People who for some reason find it impossible to think about themselves, and so really be themselves, try to make up for not thinking with doing.”
Alchemy and the Transmutation of Ignorance Into Truth: Lewis Thomas’s Prescient 1983 Manifesto for the Humanity-Saving Value of Social Science
“In all of nature there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.”
Insomniac City: Bill Hayes’s Extraordinary Love Letter to New York, Oliver Sacks, and Love Itself
“The most we can do is to write — intelligently, creatively, evocatively — about what it is like living in the world at this time.”
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