Negative Material Plane

Famous quotes containing the words negative, material and/or plane:

    Our role is to support anything positive in black life and destroy anything negative that touches it. You have no other reason for being. I don’t understand art for art’s sake. Art is the guts of the people.
    Elma Lewis (b. 1921)

    Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
    William Burroughs (b. 1914)

    In time the scouring of wind and rain will wear down the ranges and plane off the region until it has the drab monotony of the older deserts. In the meantime—a two-million-year meantime—travelers may enjoy the cruel beauties of a desert in its youth,....
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)