67 Quotes by Dew Platt

It happened overnight – the evolution of an atomic identity towards a manifestation of life. There it was, polymers shrinking, disintegrating like Phenol without its Benzene. It was simply there, haphazard and hazardous as a series of exploding celluloid billiard balls. And there it was, until the sudden surge. And there was silence.

What an experiment will give, to put a writer in the dark, ask her to stretch a character of the human kind with no physical characteristics attached? Will this character emerge with no prejudice in kind or one of a new kind, an organism cultured in the dark to what light may not reflect? Humanity absorbed or rudely deflected?

I passed the morning that knew no grief and at night bowed to the darkness that breathes. While in passing may seem brief, there is no simplicity to the nature of change.

Within the human, good or evil aims are never ancient. They are sometimes masqueraded when reinvented in modern means.

Give a self-less person power and he or she breathes catastrophe. There is no foundation for the proper management of power.

The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English – a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and enables you to be more of who you are. My bigger translation? You don’t jump essence, you jump environs!

History foretells that when you give an ordinary person the wisdom of what is right and the dignity to follow his or her heart, the world as we know it changes or goes through a phase.

A source is always its own will.

I have seen evidence of this – that if that which is denied is what is strong, what is strong always evolves and what or who holds the denial is always the lie.