To Believe in Man

The front cover of the book, and a few excerpts, though no color pages would show up

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To Believe in Man, by Joseph Pintauro and Corita King. I didn't think much of it, when I picked it up, but it caught my attention as the bell rang to end lunch. So I checked it out as I headed out to my next class. The book is filled with random doodles and blots of colorful waterpaint, and lots and lots of scribbly handwriting, with black and white photos here and there. But it was interesting, and once I had deciphered the handwrinting, I fell in love with some of the words, so here are some of my favorite excerpts

Favorite Excerpts-

-Sometimes it seems there's not even a wind for an answer to be blowin' in.

-Our worst ugliness was our blindness to our own beauty

-Remember all those things we used to blame on the devil, and all those things we left up to god?
Now it's all a hundred times more complicated.

-we must become new men or be satisfied as we are...
...either way we risk tragedy

-to believe in man is to eat a tomato that was grown on a fire escape

-...and if we are all sinners, then there are good sinners and bad sinners

-maybe we are less than our dreams would make us,

but that less is more than gods would dream of

-for we have seen if only one of us
decides to pull the plug,
the millions of us can
kiss the world
goodbye
whether we like it or not

-don't forget you are children of the earth

-Don't knock yourself out over
Adam and Eve
And smooth or hairy monkeys
Enter into your own evolution
if you think you're man enough

-if it came out of a woman, man you better believe it