"The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker."

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Source : "There Is an Audience for Our Films: Four African-American Female Filmmakers Speak Out". Interview with Lorenza Muñoz, www.thedailybeast.com. December 4, 2012.

Victoria Mahoney

#Funny Inspirational Quotes #White Quotes #World Quotes

“The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Son meant the same as the Greek formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding through the Son, fell ill and died. An unkind scholar remarked that after muddling his prepositions what else could he decently do?”
“The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.”
“It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes.”

Source : "Ludivine Sagnier on Impersonating the Late Alain Corneau in 'Love Crime'". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. August 29, 2011.
“I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.”
“There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.”

Source : "A Thief’s Journal". Book by Jean Genet, 1949.
“Inclusion and fairness in the workplace . . . is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do.”
“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.”
“If you are squeamish Don't prod the beach rubble.”

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