"She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. "
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
Friday, March 28, 2003
"At this time we may not understand, but I think in time we will."
- Grateful Dead
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
"The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand."
- Blaise Pascale, Pensees
Tuesday, March 25, 2003
"Human rights are what reason requires and conscience demands. They are us and we are them. Human rights are rights that any person has as a human being. We are all human beings; we are all deserving of human rights. One cannot be true without the other."
- Kofi Annan
"[He] realized too late that there was no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Monday, March 24, 2003
"Everybody knows
It hurts to grow up.
And everybody does--
It's so weird to be back here.
Let me tell you what:
The years go on..."
- Ben Folds
Sunday, March 23, 2003
"We try to embrace the universe, but we end up throwing our arms around the local dunghill."
- William Kennedy, Very Old Bones
Sunday, March 16, 2003
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
- Jimi Hendrix
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
"Nothing ages faster or more pathetically than objects once meant to be futuristic."
"People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead."
- James Baldwin
Saturday, March 08, 2003
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation."
- Pearl S. Buck
Wednesday, March 05, 2003
"I won't play ball, won't do what I'm told,
I'd rather be a square peg in a round hole."
- The Toasters
Tuesday, March 04, 2003
"A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success."
- Robert Orben
Saturday, March 01, 2003
"And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk to blossom."
- Anais Nin
"They drew a circle that shut me out:
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took them in."