"Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it's a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard Wright, and Angry Black White Boy is our generation's Native Son."

-- William Upski Wimsatt

#Son Quotes #Boys Quotes #Our Generation Quotes

“I'm very lucky to have worked in the '70s. It's a different industry and distribution is in a state of flux. It's all different platforms, they're doing this video-on-demand thing and also playing the film theatrically. It's funny to me: In the States it's an arthouse movie.”
“This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.”
“Just because we have a thought, doesn't mean it is a thought worth having.”
“I want to get out of the major opera houses.”
“The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent.”
“No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.”
“Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.”
“Ive always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium - I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd.”

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