Let us come together before we're annihilated.
Stevie WonderRead
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
Interpretation
Music transcends boundaries and speaks to universal emotions.
This quote by Stevie Wonder highlights the unique and profound ability of music to connect people from different backgrounds and cultures. It emphasizes that music has its own inherent language that conveys emotions and ideas, allowing anyone to relate to it regardless of their personal circumstances.
In practice
During a speech about creativity, you might use this quote to emphasize the power of music in bringing people together.
Let us come together before we're annihilated.
What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.
First of all, I'm no better than the next person.
When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.
Until we Dream of Life and Life becomes a Dream.
I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That's because I loved her so much. I want to live so I can carry out the essence of what she has shown me: kindness and goodness.
As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist.
I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.
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Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.
It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.
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