Occupy Wall Street

Famous quotes containing the words wall street, occupy, wall and/or street:

    The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.
    Thylias Moss, African American poet. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 1994)

    What you’re trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You’re trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.
    Robert Stone (b. 1937)

    It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning “Good morning” at total strangers.
    Maya Angelou (b. 1928)