Word: speakes
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...does, actually. I was up at Harvard giving a lecture to the Center for Ethics. I chose to speak about exactly this. I spoke about what the responsibility of the writer is. I mentioned, during that lecture, how surprised I had been by the personal ramifications, the human ramifications of writing fiction. It carries with it remarkable implications in terms of what your responsibility is towards people who are investing a lot of emotion in your stories...
...going to empower them because now they know they can reach whatever potential they want. Young girls in Liberia now can speak about wanting to be a minister or a President or a leader. I hope that motivation will just spread...
...Bacon didn't simply unload his grief. He used it to find his way to the even bleaker abbreviations of a pitiless world he produced in the 1970s. Dyer's grotesque end--he was found dead on the toilet from a drug overdose--stands behind these paintings, but they speak to you about more universal miseries. This is the thing so compelling about Bacon, the sense he produces that the suffering is ferocious but the sufferer is dry-eyed...
...shower. (Speak for yourself...
...food crises are low, we can’t lose sight of the underlying problem of persistent hunger,” he said. When asked about ways to tackle the issue of global hunger on a local level, Zucker said, “Individuals need to be the voice. Speak loudly...