Simple Idea

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or idea:

“A Bartas can do what a Bartas will
But simple I according to my skill.”
—Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672)

“My family’s lives were not on television, not in books, not even comic books. There was a myth of the poor in this country, but it did not include us, no matter how hard I tried to squeeze us in. There was an idea of the good poor—hard-working, ragged but clean, and intrinsically honorable. I understood that we were the bad poor ...”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)