The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.Barack Obama
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.Franklin D. Roosevelt
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.George Orwell
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.George Orwell
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.Marilyn Monroe
When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.Marilyn Monroe