"Without an understanding of the issue of race and a willingness to confront it head on, the working class will not build its strength."

-- Michael Yates

#Race Quotes #Class Quotes #Issues Quotes

“I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.”
“Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty”
“I believe that you can love anyone. I've had relationships with women, I've had relationships with men. I don't think you should be judged based on who you find attractive. Especially guys - gay men, they really have it hard sometimes.”
“We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has ***** been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!”
“I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?”
“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”

Source : Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.36, Transaction Publishers
“The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you and then kinda forget the words. Just imagine how you felt when you heard it, if it was one of your songs. If it became one of your songs. If it meant whatever it meant for you and as soon as you see the visual, you get a rapid eye movement relationship with the song instead of an imaginative one. I think that can be dangerous because I don't think I'd want to be listening to a song on the radio and thinking about the video. Whatever that one interpretation was”
“My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.”

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