Yaphet Kotto famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I like doing business in a black city.
-- Yaphet Kotto

#Cities #Black
I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
-- Yaphet Kotto

#Writing #Direct
All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.
-- Yaphet Kotto

#Done #Want #Different

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.
The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldnâ€™t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed
Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.
It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.
One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.
Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!

Yaphet Kotto famous quotes

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