"Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank..."

-- Amiri Baraka

#Men Quotes #White Quotes #Faces Quotes

“My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.”
“There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.”
“It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another.”
“what you fear, you invite.”
“Exchange is creation.”
“Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.”
“The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.”
“I never had a low self-esteem that would make me gay. At one point, though, the reverse happened. Being homosexual led me to have a loss of self-esteem when I first became aware of society's attitudes about homosexuality.”

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