
“Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter.”
Book: Cometan, the Omnidoxy
“Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter.”
Context: Grace Jones said this to me when I met her. I washed her feet, and I looked up at her and she said, "No matter what you do in your life, don’t you ever let anybody take your creative people away from you." And what my creative friends always remind me of is they say, "Only value the opinion of those that you respect. And anyone that you don’t respect, pay no mind to their opinion about you or anything else." And that’s how I live my life. If I worried about everything that everyone said, I would not be a good artist.
2010-, China’s Censorship Can Never Defeat the Internet, 2012
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 27.
Don Soderquist “ Live Learn Lead to Make a Difference https://books.google.com/books?id=s0q7mZf9oDkC&lpg=pg=PP1&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2006 p. 58.
On Doing Things Right
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 265.