"We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself."

-- Nikki Giovanni

#Black Quotes #Identity Quotes #West Quotes

“Many years ago, in the throes of my struggles on the PGA Tour, I had difficulty even getting into pro-ams. I needed money, so I put together a 45-minute magic show I'd perform at corporate events surrounding the tournament.”
“Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.”
“Â”Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination.Â””

Source : Military Review, October 1948.
“I believe there's more than this-that maybe when we die our brains conjure up some kind of shutdown experience, and that's what people try to sum up as the afterlife. Something else is going to happen and it's going to be crazy and confusing and weird, and we probably won't know what it's all about. It'll just be another place where we're trying to understand why we exist at all.”

Source : Interview with Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. September 10, 2014.
“The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.”
“A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives.”
“I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.”
“There's a book of interviews with John Cage by Joan Retallack called Musicage that was finished the summer that he died, in 1992. And in one of the last interviews, he was very excited to talk about nanotechnology. There's real technophilia from him, a kind of utopian embrace of the idea that nanotechnology will free people up to do what they really want to do.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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