In terms of election issues, the urgent challenges we face include securing reforms to de-escalate the nuclear arms race, end voter suppression, improve health care for all Americans and alleviate the climate crisis. Martin Luther King III Read Quote
Sometimes you’re not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I’ve written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback. Len Wein Read Quote
Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test. John Lewis Read Quote
There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I’m quite sure I will share the same fate. Franz Wright Read Quote
If you’re well-known, you’re at the risk of becoming your own character. When you’re alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper. Antonio Munoz Molina Read Quote
I am an insomniac. Most of my nights include a moment of wakening. Often I will make my way to the kitchen to make tea and read for awhile. Jacqueline Novogratz Read Quote
I’m tenacious. I work hard. I like people that I collaborate with to work as hard as I am. Joe Mantello Read Quote
I don’t have any personal memories of the broadcast of ‘Civilisation’. I was born the year afterwards. But the many personal stories I have heard from the people it touched do resonate as I had my own television-induced epiphany. David Olusoga Read Quote