Words From The Wise: Yohji Yamamoto

I inject anger into everything I create
Yohji Yamamoto
[Japanese fashion designer, Y3]


[AWKWORD's first pair of Y3s]

Although bankruptcy and store-closings worldwide have set back this creative genius, he keeps creating, and inspiring. Do a google news search -- Yamamoto and Y3 are NOT dead!

On Fame & Celebrity in Post-Post-Modern Americ(r)a(zy) / Words from the Wise - Daniel Boorstin

"The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name."

-- historian, professor, attorney and writer Daniel Boorstin (10/01/1914 - 02/28/2004)

Words from the Wise - Muhammad Ali

"My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world"

-- Muhammad Ali (via Kanye West's blog)

Words from the Wise - L.L. Cool J

"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man given. Be grateful. Conceit is self given. Be careful"

-- LL Cool J

Words from the Wise - Edmund Burke

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"

-- Edmund Burke

Words From The Wise: Gregg Allman

The blues aint nothing but a good man feeling bad

GREGG ALLMAN
[Singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter; Co-Founder, The Allman Brothers Band; Member, Roll & Roll Hall Of Fame]

Words From The Wise: Mark Twain

That's easy: All you have to be is ignorant and cocky
Mark Twain
[on what it takes to be successful]

Words From The Wise: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Racism is the maximum amount of hatred for the minimum amount of reason
Abraham Joshua Heschel
[20th Century Rabbi]