Ed Roland Quotes
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.
The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.
While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
A partner can encourage you, maybe even stop you from falling, but they can't get you to the top. That's entirely up to you.
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.
If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147)
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.
I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.
Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.
Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.
I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.
When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.
For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
We are all driven by an invisible whip. Some run, some have fun, some are hip, some tip, some dip, but we all must answer to the invisible whip.
If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.
