"If it falls your lot to be..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
More by Martin Luther King Jr
“A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy”
“Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.”
“The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.”
More on Perception
“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.”
“If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water.”
“The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.”