Moments of ClarityInspiring Quotations"We call a section in our local supermarket the 'Health Food Section.' What is the rest of the store called, the 'Death and Disease Section'?"- Carol Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children, Putnam, 2000 "Though we're artists and we're considered creators, we are also citizens, and I believe we have to be engaged and involved in what happens in our community, what happens in the nation and in the world." - Danny Glover, actor, in a WBAI broadcast "We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles." - Lily Tomlin, actor "I really believe that justice and creativity have something intrinsically in common. The effort to make justice and the creative impulse are deeply aligned, and when you feel the necessity of a creative life, of coming to use your own creativity, I think you also become aware of what's lacking, that not everyone has this potentiality available to them, that it is being withheld from so many." - Adrienne Rich, poet, The Progressive, Jan. 1994 "Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals. As a result, those differences have been misnamed and misused in the service of separation and confusion." - Audre Lorde, poet, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Crossing Press, 1984 "I think we're threatening their power structure. I think we are scaring them because we are at a point where we are sick and tired of our people being locked away in these hell holes. We are sick and tired of more and more laws being made so that our youth can become slave labor for them. We are sick and tired of watching our jobs being stripped from us, and then being told, 'Well, get into the dot.com industry.' We can't even get textbooks, yet all of a sudden they want us to start learning computers. They want us to join the corporate level of their globalization corporation. If we don't have the skills, they have to turn us into something that they can get cheap labor from." - A 24-year-old protester who was arrested at the Republican Convention, Philadelphia, 8/00 "If you receive money, there's always a compromise. That's one of the things we watch out for." - Danny Billie, Traditional Seminole, Sun-Sentinel, 8/5/00 Two Eyes Magazine: Home | Issue 1 contents |