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Here's Patti Smith's Fantastic Advice For Young Artists
"One does their work for the people, and the more people you can touch, the more wonderful it is. You don't make work and say, 'I only want the cool people to read it.' I mean, fuck you! You want everyone to read it [...] Maybe you want to or maybe you want to write scripts for detective shows... it doesn't really…
My Plan For Liberating Muslim Women
My friends, I know what it is like to be a Muslim woman. The day I walked around in a burka — my goodness, how oppressive it was, how suffocating, how transforming — I learned. I have been verbally abused by an Arab man. At least I think it was abuse. They really should learn our language, shouldn't they?
The Ultimate Celebrity Commencement Speech Mashup, Class of 2010
One commencement speaker really can't provide all the wisdom today's graduates need in this crazy world. That's why our textual analysts have combined favorite lines from the 2010 speeches of sixteen luminaries into the mother of all graduation speeches!
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Maurice Sendak's advice to young people, in Spike Jonze's short documentary: "Quit this life as soon as possible. Get out. You're doing a documentary about a brain-dead person." [LA Times]
Latinas Discuss Sotomayor's Wisdom
Not surprisingly, to many Latinas, Sonia Sotomayor's "wise Latina" remark doesn't mean "I am a racist who hates white people." Here's what it does mean.
