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“I happen to be a twin. I grew up half of my life with someone who looks and sounds like me. And I believe it's possible to hold twin desires in your head, such as the desire to create painting and destroy painting at once. The desire to look at a black American culture as underserved, in need of representation, a desire to mine that said culture and to lay its parts bare and look at it almost clinically.”
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“We live a dying dream / If you know what I mean”
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“It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.”
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“The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.”
Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY
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“Femininity and sport can go together.”
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“Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.”
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“Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.”
Source : Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.226
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“When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.”
