"For some people, the beginning is a time of complete chaos. You see bits and pieces of what is before you. You have a sense of what it is you must set out to do. But nothing will form yet. When you sit down to write or paint or form movement, it's like stepping over a cliff or into a dense fog. All you can do is trust that this impending masterpiece is going to somehow manifest itself as you work. But you do know that there is something specific ahead, and you feel the excitement of that."

-- Vinita Hampton Wright

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“What a world! Whether you're right or wrong, as long as you're strong, you're right.”

Source : Piri Thomas (1974). “Down These Mean Streets”, Vintage
“Much of the image of the amazingness of America comes from the movies into other cultures. And it's much the same thing when you reverse it. Much of Africa is presented through poverty, through drought and war. [But] you're not presenting people, you're not presenting countries, you're not presenting complexity, and so people can't care about an amorphous mass called Africa.”
“Seriously, I don't need a gun. I'm easily annoyed. I would shoot people in my house that I invited over.”

Source : Wanda Sykes (2004). “Yeah, I Said It”, p.71, Simon and Schuster
“But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.”
“I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that... one might have crossed the ocean.”
“if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.19, New Victoria Publishers
“Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Roger Bentley". "The Mole People", www.imdb.com. 1956.
“People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.”

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