"Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself."

-- Andres Serrano

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“The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ***** he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.”
“Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.”
“All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.”
“It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.”
“I never read the scripts at all carefully and never wanted to know what was going on, because i felt that being a benevolent alien, that's the way it should be”
“As we walk back, it feels like the city is engulfing us. Adrenalin still pours through our veins. Sparks flow through to our fingers. We've still been running in the mornings, but the city's different then. It's filled with hope and with bristles of winter sunshine. In the evening, it's like it dies, waiting to be born again the next morning.”
“Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down - they were still there, although no one was in them.”

Source : "Rt Interview: Joan Cusack On War, Inc., The Unofficial Sequel to Grosse Point Blank". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. May 22, 2008.
“I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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