Quotes About Inspiration

up we ascend past the constellations of dawn

or is it long ago, out of the memory I can't have, where does this imagery come from

I'm the being who isn't planetary; we have traveled beyond our world, to sit in a paper forest lit by jewel-light.

As mulheres têm um incrível acesso à força e à sabedoria naturais se deuxadas por conta própria.

The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Brother Lawrence, known for his intimacy with God, wrote, "The foundation of spiritual life, for me, has been a high image of God and a high esteem of God."2

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.

I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

Keep dreaming in color And drawing your dreams On cement floors Until they are realized. —Alicia Keys

a twenty-year-old with braids and beads, with a large helping of soul and a sprinkle of classical.

There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn someone is trying' to tear someone down in some way. Everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.

No feeling compares to having others love what you love, and then enthusiastically sharing it with others. Fame for the sake of fame had never been the dream. But spreading light is a pleasure I'll always live for.

Empire" isn't just about New York. It's about hope. No matter where we're from, we all want the opportunity to work hard and breathe life into our ambitions.

Elaine Brown's book A Taste of Power. Elaine rose up from an impoverished childhood in North Philly to become the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party, the '60s political organization formed to challenge police brutality, fight systemic racism, and empower black communities.

I am here—in the present, standing on the shoulders of all who've paved my way, in awe of where my life has led me.

With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.

Design is intelligence made visible.