Quotes About Perception

He saw that the highest compliment a white Englishman can give himself is the assertion that he is "color-blind," by which he means he has been able to overlook the fact of your color—to look past it—to the "you" beneath. Not content with colonizing your country, he now colonizes your self. So

Finally, in the crowded third corner, stand the many people who feel rap is not music at all but rather a form of social problem. They have only one question to ask a rapper, and it concerns his choice of vocabulary. (Years pass. The question never changes.)

I knew there was something not quite right about her rigid notions—black music, white music—that there must be a world somewhere in which the two combined.

But Archie did not pluck Clara Bowden from a vacuum. And it's about time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings. Clara was from somewhere. She had roots.

Maybe you could say she was overly precise sometimes, not especially creative, or lacking in soul.

There was a sense in which she couldn't quite believe in violence, as if it were, in her view, too stupid to be real. I knew—from Lambert only—that her own childhood had been full of violence, emotional and physical, but she rarely referred to it other than calling it "that nonsense," or sometimes "those ridiculous people," because when she ascended to the life of the mind everything that was not the life of the mind stopped existing for her.

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he is a saint or they are not telling the whole story.

Beatriz Aquilar : i libri sono specchi in cui troviamo solo ciò che abbiamo dentro di noi, e (...) la lettura coinvolge mente e cuore. - L'ombra del vento

les livres sont des miroirs,et l`on n y voit que ce qu`on porte en soi-meme.

Pasakyk, kuo didžiuojiesi, ir aš pasakysu, ko tau tr?ksta. Tai kasdienin? m?s? duona.. Neišman?lis dažnai prisistato kaip žinovas, žmogžudys - kaip pagailos vertas žmogus, nusid?jelis - kaip šventeiva, lupikautojas - kaip nusižemin?s žmogus, storžievis - kaip elegantas, o silpnaprotis - kaip intelektualas

Komerciniame mene - o visas šio vardo nusipeln?s menas anks?iau ar v?liau tampa komercinis - kvailumas beveik visada slypi steb?tojo žvilgsnyje

Viena iš vaikyst?s apgauli? yra tai, jog neb?tina suprasti, kad pajustum. Kai protas pradeda suvokti, kas vyksta, žaizdos širdyje jau b?na gana gilios.

Love is indeed blind, and it makes you imagine qualities in a person that don't exist.

Dad, I don't know women very well, but I reckon they live by their hearts. You

Some of these wall-eyed fellers who look jest as if they was walkin' in the shadow of Christ himself, right down the sunny road, now they can think of things en' do things that are really hell-bent.

False education, false standards, false environment had developed her into a woman who imagined she must feed her body on the milk and honey of indulgence.

I've seen runnin' molasses that was quicker 'n him.

yet she did not miss the poisoned honey of some tongues or the expressive glances of many eyes. Ina was quick to grasp that

We fall asleep on words / we wake among words

Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of literature. Writing as a sylistic exercise seemed barren to me. Poetry as the art of the word made me yawn. I also understood that I couldn't sustain myself very long on the poems of others. I had to go out from myself and literature, look around in the world and lay hold of other spheres of reality.

The carpet is too soft. Also the palm tree in the lobby is unbelievable. For a long time the Maitre looks at our faces, shuffling passports in his hands. Such dark-ringed eyes, such dark-ringed eyes. I knew a merchant from Smyrna, who also had a false front tooth. Nowadays one has to be terribly careful: informers and scorpions are everywhere. In the elevator we stand facing the mirror, but already at the first jerk we see silvery mildew in the place of our faces.

nuestros ojos reflejan una pregunta apacible como un espejo que ya no enmohece el aliento cada día renuevo mi mirar cada día va creciendo mi tacto con el cosquilleo de la cercanía de tantas cosas.

Those who regard worldly affairs as a hindrance to buddha dharma think only that there is no buddha dharma in the secular world; they do not understand that there is no secular world in buddha dharma.

we spend one-third of our lives immersed in the media. Our abilities to speak, think, form relationships with others, even our dreams and our own sense of identity are now shaped by the media. So, studying the media is studying ourselves as social creatures.