"you can work together if you try hard."

“What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.”

“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”

“Men in long-term relationships, we all know how they lose their mojo, they just completely fall apart. They feel like they're not even a man anymore, and they get kind of feminized and weird and they have this longing for this animal, brutal part of themselves to come back. Love does something to men.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.”

“The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.”

“I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

“When you're dead, you're done.”

“I am thrilled to be working with Lane Bryant on this collaboration. Designing apparel women can feel confident and beautiful in has been a long-standing pillar of the Lela Rose brand, and we are looking forward to bringing our designs to Lane Bryant's inspiring base of customers.”