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“Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap. The reason I was able to listen to it so freely was that my mom couldn't hear any of it, so we would be driving along just blaring Too $hort's horrible misogynistic stuff, and my mom would just turn to us and say, "This is great. I can feel the bass. It sounds so nice." And we're like, "Yeah, mom. We can feel the bass, too."”
Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012. 
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“As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.”
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“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”
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“To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.”
Source : "The Left Grapples With Charlie Hebdo" by Bill Scher, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 12, 2015.
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“Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.”
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“Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.”
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“The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.”
Source : Sarah M. Lowe, Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, Barbican Art Gallery (2004). “Tina Modotti & Edward Weston: the Mexico years”, Merrell Publishers
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“Had an amazing weekend hanging with my pals.”
