From Nothing Personal, a collaboration with the photographer Richard Avedon (1964). Baldwin's text for the volume can be found " here https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=cibs". <br class="br">Context: One must say Yes to life, and embrace it wherever it is found - and it is found in terrible places. … For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
From Nothing Personal, a collaboration with the photographer Richard Avedon (1964). Baldwin's text for the volume can be found " here https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=cibs".
“Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.”
Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821) Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat
The Count, in Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg, "Second Dialogue," (1821).
“Truth can only be found in one place: the code.”
Robert C. Martin (1952) American software consultant
Source: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
“Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.”
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist
John O'Hara (1905–1970) American journalist
Oscar Levant, as quoted in "Oscar the Magnificent" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/161384355/ by Burt Prelutsky, in The Los Angeles Times (January 26, 1969), p. 468
Oscar Levant (1906–1972) American comedian, composer, pianist and actor
Oscar Levant, as quoted in "Oscar the Magnificent" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/161384355/
“If we found life on Mars, it would change everybody's view of our place in space.”
Bill Nye (1955) American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer
[NewsBank, Mike Anton, Los Angeles Times, The Seattle Times, Seattle, Washington, Fully loaded robot heading off to Mars, November 20, 2011]
Douglas Murray (1979) British political commentator and far-right activist
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (2019)
William Ernest Hocking (1873–1966) American philosopher
Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912), Ch. XVI : The Original Sources of the Knowledge of God, p. 237.
