Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
– Joanna Russ
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- Civilization must be preserved,’ says he.’Civilization’s doing fine,’ I said. ‘We just don’t happen to be where it is. – Joanna Russ
- There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women. – Joanna Russ
- Without meaningful work you might as well be dead. – Joanna Russ
- The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That’s the troublewith women, – Joanna Russ
- (Only God can make a tree and She seldom tries, nowadays.) – Joanna Russ
- In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting – Joanna Russ
- Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly. – Joanna Russ
- Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is. – Joanna Russ
- I left her wallpapering her much-loved, much-tended little corner of hell. – Joanna Russ
- I is Jovial. I is Optimistic. I is Antsy. I is Noteworthy. I is Nervy. I is Ambitious.But altogether ME is JOANNA.WHO ARE YOU ALTOGETHER???? – JOANNA SK
- Majority does not mean Right. Minority does not mean Wrong. Always maintain a stand for what is right. – Maisie A Smikle
- Employing yourself costs less than employing someone else but more than working. The marginal cost/revenue of education. – Mark Sherman Smeester
- Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort. – Anne Rice
- I do the same with my books…Nothing like a good argument in the margins with someone who’s already said all they have to say on the subject. – Betsy Cornwell
- I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits. – Daniel Woodrell
- [I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments. – Lawrence Lessig
- How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. – Don DeLillo
- Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. – Julian Barnes
- Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget. – Suzy Kassem
- Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art’s sake: it exists for people’s sake. – Julian Barnes
- The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth. – Bryant McGill
- Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone… – Asa Don Brown
- Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature? – Maurice Ravel
- When does complete awareness occur? When the ego departs. – Dada Bhagwan
- Spiritual growth is the only real growth – Radhe Maa
- My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist. – Chris Matakas
- Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. – Edward Abbey
- Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate – Frank Herbert
- A continuous growth, a steady growth is a demand of life. – Sunday Adelaja
- Plants can be affected by stray voltage and they may show stunted growth, deformed growth, or go dormant. In extreme cases they may die. – Steven Magee
- Personal growth is the most powerful force for change on earth. I believe that personal growth can help anyone change anything. – Derric Yuh Ndim
- Christians should be a foreign influence, a minority group in a pagan world. – Billy Graham
- The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority. – Israelmore Ayivor
- It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one. – E Paul Torrance
- I hate that the actions of a minority can influence the opinions of a majority. – Sarah Ayoub
- The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority. – Philip K
- There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority. – Millard Fuller
- The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government. – AE Samaan