Activists Quote by Angie Thomas Download Open image “Literature births activists.” — Angie Thomas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activists Literature
“Being an author of a book is like being a mother of a debutante in the Middle Ages. You have to present your baby… — Elvira Baryakina Copy Share Image
Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
The information I most want is in books not yet written by people not yet born. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
“The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.” — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“They were readers for whom literature was a drug, each complex plot line delivering a new high, suspending them above reality, allowing them a… — Gloria Goldreich Copy Share Image
It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the… — Michael Nyqvist Copy Share Image
“They were...no ordinary group, gathering together to kill an evening, to seek refuge from critical husbands and demanding children while idly discussing their new… — Gloria Goldreich Copy Share Image
“The black officer checks Daddy while his partner glances around at all of the onlookers. There's quite a few of us now. Ms. Yvette… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
I think that the more of us who take the time to understand how someone else is feeling, the more likely we are to… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
The transition from unknown to known-in-publishing has been empowering but also challenging. It's an honor to know that people actually want to know what… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
I really do hope 'The Hate U Give' provides mirrors for readers who don't often get them in books. I've had so many young… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
As a black woman, I feel like I have a unique experience that we don't often see in media portrayals of the South. — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“Who the fuck complains about going to Harry Potter World? Or Butter Beer? Or wands?” — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“With King Lords, we had a whole bunch of folks who had our backs, no matter what. They bought us clothes and shit our… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book like a rapper would write it - I didn't want to hold back. Rappers catch a lot of… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
Bent Literary Agency had a Q&A on Twitter, and I took a chance and asked if the Black Lives Matter movement was an appropriate… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“Has this situation made you fearful of cops?" she eventually asks. "I don't know," I say truthfully. "My uncle's a cop. I know not… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do… — Marshall Brickman Copy Share Image
After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“To face the days ahead we must ask two questions: first, "Where are we?" and second, "Where do we go from here?" We Americans… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
“He was a son of the revolutionary movement when he and the revolutionary movement were still pristine. It was a special time for Filipino… — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza Copy Share Image
The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the… — Dana Priest Copy Share Image
Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to… — Ben Edwards Copy Share Image
I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by that, or… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
I don't think we need political activists on the Supreme Court or any other level of court. — Dick Mountjoy Copy Share Image
“There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
