“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” -Alice Walker “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”-Alice Walker “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”-Alice Walker “Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”-Alice Walker “The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”- Alice Walker “Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t…

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” -Pablo Picasso   The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.” -Pablo Picasso   It takes a long time to become young.” -Pablo Picasso   Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” -Pablo Picasso   The older you get the stronger the wind gets – and it’s always in your face.” -Pablo Picasso   Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.” -Pablo Picasso   The world today doesn’t make sense,…

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth- Abraham Maslow The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health- Abraham Maslow The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short- Abraham Maslow A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself- Abraham Maslow The ability to be in the…