"I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life."

-- Mickalene Thomas

#Thinking Quotes #Who I Am Quotes #Space Quotes

“Being a professional comedian is doing it right and good, when you don't feel like it.”

Source : Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”
“Anybody whos been to Ecuador wants to go back because its beautiful out there.”
“My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.”

Source : "Voice of the Maghreb" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.
“I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.”
“The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited
“In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love And there may be many things we forget in the days to come, But this will not be one of them.”
“I felt as if I was the brunt of some massive joke at my expense: Can you believe this loser can be connected to Marlon Brando and Katharine Hepburn? But through the years I have learned to tolerate and sometimes embrace the idea. People have asked me if I consider it an honour. Well, all it indicates is that I've been in a lot of movies with a lot of people. And besides that there are plenty of other actors that would work.”
“In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.”

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