Jo Ann Nash

Forrester: No thinking - that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is... to write, not to think!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181536/trivia?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu

“The anti-Shakespeareans base their arguments upon a few simple premises, all of them false (xv).”

Most anti-Shakespeareans are naive and betray an obvious snobbery. The author of their favorite plays, they imply, must have a college diploma framed and hung on his study wall like the one in the dentist’s office, and so obviously so great a writer must have the title or some equally significant equivalent of exalted social background. They forget that genius has a way of cropping up in unexpected places and that none of the great creative writers of the world got his inspiration in a college or university course (xvi).”

Titus Andronicus

I struck out by reading and writing and carried books with me as

my shield against ignorance.”

~Jimmy Santiago Baca

Best Baca interview. EVER!

                                http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/gallery.php?item=1886

"Jimmy Santiago Baca, an ex-convict and drug addict who taught himself to read while in prison, is a highly acclaimed poet who won the prestigious American Book Award in 1988. Admired for his use of rich imagery and lyrical language, Baca, unlike a growing number of 'prison writers' who inject their works with rage and desolation, writes poems dealing with spiritual rebirth and triumph over tragedy. 'You really don't have time to be angry,'  Baca explained to Beth Ann Krier in the Los Angeles Times. 'If you compare a life to daytime photography, my life has been more like nighttime photography. My life as a background has had darkness; the only way to survive the darkness is to have my soul flash. I'm too busy trying to capture the aspects of myself in the dark."'

Author Study - Author's Craft - Source Citation
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Single Track High

"Think about major issues confronting us in this century. These include war, insecurity, and terrorism; population pressures, environmental strains, and climate change; poverty and income gaps. For all these diverse problems, empowering women is part of the answer. Most obviously, educating girls and bringing them into the formal economy will yield economic dividends and help address global poverty (238).”

“We’ve been chronicling the world of impoverished women, but let’s break for a billionaire (205).”

“The Axis of Equality”

Half The Sky

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

"A record seven-in-ten (69%) Hispanic high school graduates in the Class of 2012 enrolled in college..."
http://www.pewhispanic.org/



“Caballero” by Zachary Caballero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4i1rIKs-DE&feature=youtu.be

http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html

"We do not write in order to be understood;
we write in order to understand."
~C. Day Lewis, poet

"I didn't ever consciously decide to pursue writing. I've been writing since I was old enough to spell, and just sitting down and writing made me feel incredibly fulfilled.
(Anya 2003) "

“More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century."
http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/6444203-half-the-sky-turning-oppression-into-opportunity-for-women-worldwide