"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."

-- Constance Baker Motley

#Father Quotes #Distance Quotes #Class Quotes

“Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework.”
“In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.”
“Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.”
“I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace,”

Source : "Reps. Rogers, Smith spar over Benghazi; Mark Sanford talks political redemption". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 12, 2013.
“I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice.”
“Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their markets, extort tribute, undermine their cultures, destroy their villages, steal their lands and natural resources, enslave their labor, and accumulate vast wealth.”
“Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at sending stuff out or feeling that something is ready to send out and I never have been. Part of the problem is that as soon as a poem is finished, it stops being all that interesting to me.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.”

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