Alanis Morissette: Andrea Renault/Globe Photos
''My hope is that we respond from the highest level of self-care as is possible, as well as with a curiosity toward what the root of the motivations to attack were.''
--ALANIS MORISSETTE
''As a parent, I'm concerned for our youth, but determined to make it better for them. While it's easy to feel helpless and fearful, we all need to do our part in making their world a better place. We need to allow those emotions to turn into optimism, bravery and defiance so that their future is as bright as it can be. I believe most important of all is the commitment that we owe to them, never to forget.''
--FAITH HILL
''Good lord, the horror of Tuesday the 11th.... My prayers go out to the survivors of the attack and those who've lost loved ones, but my heart goes out to the hijacked passengers and the folks who populated that grand monument that always made New York City seem bigger than life, the World Trade Center.... As a nation, we're sad. We're horrified and scared. We're outraged. We're hungry for vengeance. That was all to be expected. What wasn't expected—but should have been, really—has been watching us band together as Americans.... If you're not proud to be an American this week, I urge you to get your jaded head out of your a—and stand in front of a flag and say the Pledge of Allegiance with as much fervor as you did when you first learned it in grade school. Because all that rhetoric we're usually fed during election years about patriotism and love for our country that normally seems like bulls---? That rhetoric has become a reality again. And I'd like to think of it as the parting gift of the passengers of the hijacked airliners and the nearly [seven] thousand innocents who perished.... That's the silver lining to the dark and evil cloud that loomed over our country just long enough last week to remind us why we're all on this particular land mass to begin with.... Because we choose to be Americans.''
--KEVIN SMITH
''The streets are open but quite desolate.... And today is a beautiful autumn day. A day where New York would normally be filled with people walking around or sitting in parks, laughing and happy.... Someday in the near future things will return to some semblance of 'normalcy'. But when that might happen no one knows. And what that semblance of normalcy might be like is anyone's guess. In the meantime I'm going to make breakfast and listen to music and offer my prayers and support to the people who are missing, and to their loved ones, and to the rescue workers, and to all of us. Please take care of each other.''
--MOBY
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Posted Sep 28, 2001
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