"There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that. We're haunted by the genocide that is America, the decimation of so many native cultures. As a mix-blood European ancestry American, you're a nexus of all those violences, and yet there's a relative personal identity as well."

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Anne Waldman

#Blood Quotes #America Quotes #Identity Quotes

“A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there.”
“The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.”
“Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.”
“We have our ambitions [in Dortmund Borussia], and of course I would love to win some titles after some years of finishing second or losing finals.”
“I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything.'”
“Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.”
“In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.”
“People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.”

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