Thursday, September 26, 2013

ANOTHER FAVORITE OLD QUOTE

"...if you're a humanitarian, which most artists are, instead of getting in a fight or breaking something up, you take it out on yourself. In fact, I would say that most creative people who are self-destructive are trying to protect other people from their outrage. If you live long enough, though, you learn you have to be a humanitarian with yourself as well as with everybody else."

—Max Roach (in a Village Voice interview, Dec. 1979)

15 comments:

JIm said...
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JenW said...

I've noticed this too about artists & humanitarians- so focused on a cause, a project, and work for the good, deplete their own well until a situation or another human arrives to make them pause, rejuvenate and deal with their own basic needs. Humanitarians thrive on giving but they also need other humanitarians for balance and nourishment.

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Anonymous said...

This might be his dumbest and most out of touch so far. Flush him, Michael, quickly

JIm said...
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Robert G. Zuckerman said...

Michael, if you want to call me i will verbally walk you through the steps needed to prevent Jim's discharge from appearing on your blog.

Lally said...

Robert. I got your instructions on how to change access but I can't even get the first step in it to work so I will call you later.

Robert G. Zuckerman said...

Sounds good Michael, speak with you then.

JIm said...

Robert and Lally, I hope you guys are successful. It only took a relatively short time for K to takes his blog down because he was unable to answer conservative logic with his liberal gibberish. If this is my swan song, I can end knowing it has been a job well done. Up with the Founding Documents and down with Liberalism/Socialism and Obamaism.!!!!

Robert G. Zuckerman said...

Jim, start your blog! And while youre at it, try to become a decent human being. Good bye and good riddance.

Lally said...

I'm leaving the stalker's last comment to show why I've changed the comment process so I get to see them before they're posted. The blog he is talking about of my good friend the wonderful poet and photographer who goes by "-K-" has nothing to do with politics. K simply posts photographs he takes while wandering the streets of Los Angeles where few tourists or film or TV show cameras ever venture. It's one of the greatest art blogs on the web. And the stalker took to harassing this good man just because I cited his blog as something people should check out! As he did for others, like my also dear friend RJ Eskow's personal blog. In the latter case, Eskow now is one of the most prominent bloggers on Huffington Post so his words are reaching a much vaster audience and the stalker's claim of eliminating his perspective defeated. (K's blog's success has also generated more viewers for his photos as his blog has been praised in all sort of magazines and newspapers etc.) But look at the boasting the stalker does, actually believing that my finally figuring out how to follow Robert's and my older son Miles's directions on creating a gateway to comments so I can keep the vicious lies and attacks off my blog, the stalker actually sees that as some kind of victory and believes that harassing innocent bystanders ("K") is what the "Founding Documents" of our country are all about. What a sad deluded man he seems to be.

Anonymous said...

This a great day for all of us. Being exposed to the toxic drivel of this fool is not healthy.

tom said...

Glad to hear you have made the change.