"They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there."

-- Bill Janklow

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“Make film, shoot film, run film. Do something. Make film. Shoot anything.”
“The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as it must have been unexpected. It is impossible for any man of candor to reflect on this circumstance without partaking of the astonishment. It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.”
“So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.”

Source : "A Dialogue With Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December, 10 1990.
“I thought I'd blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican.”
“A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.”
“The world doesnâ€™t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than lifeâ€¦.every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understoodâ€¦. Your job is to marshal the talent you do have and find people who believe in your work. Whatâ€™s important, finally, is that you create, and that those creations define for you what matters most, that which cannot be extinguished even in the face of silence, solitude, and rejection.”
“All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.”

Source : "My Kid Could Paint That". Documentary, Family, Mystery, www.imdb.com. 2007.
“But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.”

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